La Salle Explorers

[eCat]

well , from Champaign, its 11 hours by car

[eCat]

wife just texted me and said the family wants to have Xmas at my house this year since the boy has to work and won't make it.

He works his last week at Cracker Barrel and moves 2 buildings down to Office Depot.

[Owlman]

I've been wanting to do a train trip for awhile. I think I'm seriously over romanticizing it - my mom did the same trip 3 years ago and said it was just a greyhound bus on rails. She went during the summer.

At any rate, I'm thinking about driving over to Champaign, IL, after Xmas, my wife and I take the train to New Orleans 11:00pm to 3:00pm, stay down there for a couple of days and then take the train back on New Years eve. Champaign is the closest Amtrak station to our house for New Orleans/Chicago Route.

I wonder if the New Orleans to Chicago Amtrak is a party on New Years eve or if the train steward just walks thru with a little confetti popper at midnight and everyone goes back to sleep?

The train trip is kind of a bucket list thing for me.

I want to take a train trip as well. There is supposed to be a nice one through the Rocky Mountains and another one through Alaska. Amtrak doesn't own it's own tracks. It has to use freight tracks and they have priority. I wanted my oldest son to be on a train so we took the New Orleans to Houston train. It took 9 hours, because we sat on the track outside of Houston (east) for over 4 hours waiting for freight trains. Up North, Amtrak has more freedom. Make sure you get a sleeper car.

[eCat]

I've been wanting to do a train trip for awhile. I think I'm seriously over romanticizing it - my mom did the same trip 3 years ago and said it was just a greyhound bus on rails. She went during the summer.

At any rate, I'm thinking about driving over to Champaign, IL, after Xmas, my wife and I take the train to New Orleans 11:00pm to 3:00pm, stay down there for a couple of days and then take the train back on New Years eve. Champaign is the closest Amtrak station to our house for New Orleans/Chicago Route.

I wonder if the New Orleans to Chicago Amtrak is a party on New Years eve or if the train steward just walks thru with a little confetti popper at midnight and everyone goes back to sleep?

The train trip is kind of a bucket list thing for me.

I want to take a train trip as well. There is supposed to be a nice one through the Rocky Mountains and another one through Alaska. Amtrak doesn't own it's own tracks. It has to use freight tracks and they have priority. I wanted my oldest son to be on a train so we took the New Orleans to Houston train. It took 9 hours, because we sat on the track outside of Houston (east) for over 4 hours waiting for freight trains. Up North, Amtrak has more freedom. Make sure you get a sleeper car.

I've heard the trip you want to do is the Chicago to Glacier National Park and then on to Seattle with a multi-trip ticket.

But I don't have time for that one

[Saint]

I planned a train trip from where we lived in Emeryville (the area "between" Oakland and Berkeley) with my wife (girlfriend at the time) to Monterey. We got on the train and rode it about 3 miles to the main Oakland depot, where we were told to disembark and board an Amtrak bus, which took us the rest of the way (95% of the trip) to Monterey. This was in 2000 or so.

That was pretty much my last train ride.

[eCat]

I planned a train trip from where we lived in Emeryville (the area "between" Oakland and Berkeley) with my wife (girlfriend at the time) to Monterey. We got on the train and rode it about 3 miles to the main Oakland depot, where we were told to disembark and board an Amtrak bus, which took us the rest of the way (95% of the trip) to Monterey. This was in 2000 or so.

That was pretty much my last train ride.

oh man...that would totally suck

[hedge]

I'm sure she was as impressed with your train trip planning skills as your letter writing tormentor is with your sports reporting skills...

[eCat]

listen to the lake owner at the 1:10 mark

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[AlabamAlum]

It's the grandpa off Family Guy.

[bluetick]

That guy has to be operating w/o insurance - no company would touch that. "Swim at u r own risk" ..an unsafe platform, no rails, suspended over rock with a 30 foot drop? He's basically created an attractive nuisance/hazard and has the results to prove it.

[AlabamAlum]

I don't think this is the kinda dude who cares about insurance.

[bluetick]

True, although he's styling in that hat and blouse.

Plus, insurance won't help him in a criminal trial anyway.

[hedge]

"listen to the lake owner at the 1:10 mark"

Helium's a hell of a drug...

[Owlman]

It's the grandpa off Family Guy.

More like Mr. Herbert, the pedophile old man

[AlabamAlum]

That's who I meant.

[BigRedMan]

Yeah that is Herbert in real life.

[eCat]

I actually applaud the guy for providing a fun place for people

its a shame that he's got to be held responsible for someone drowning because he had the nerve to provide a rope swing or a dock to jump off of.

[Saint]

I'm sure she was as impressed with your train trip planning skills as your letter writing tormentor is with your sports reporting skills...

Things were different then. We got to our hotel room in Monterey and fucked twice and took a long nap, woke up and fucked again.

Like I said, things were different then.

[hedge]

Right, now you're the only one whose getting fucked...

[BigRedMan]

Well I think we all are in a sense.....