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NEAR SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Three hours into what will be a long day's, night's, and another day's journey along the edge of the continent, Ron Douglas tucks into a mozzarella and tomato sandwich and gazes out a window on Amtrak's Coast Starlight.
"Who doesn't like trains?" muses Douglas, a Denver travel agent who has ridden the rails from Italy to South Africa and ranks this 35-hour one way cheap car rentals trip between Los Angeles and Seattle as one of his favorites.
If the president's latest infrastructure plan were labeled "plain old rail travel" it would be far more accurate. Understating one way cheap car rentals costs, overstating benefits, and lots of supersonic rhetoric are the selling points for high-speed rail.
I had forgotten what travel by rail was like, and after decades of flying around the country and the world, I found it an immense pleasure even though our passenger trains lag behind those of much of the world.
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