Friday, June 26, 2015

June 26: Writing Prompt #177-Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, or car? (Or something else entirely — bike? Hot air balloon?)
Train, hands down.  I can enjoy all the scenery in a comfortable, roomy seat without all the work of having to worry about traffic, etc…of driving a car.  Airplanes are nice for a across the world trip, but cramped conditions, terrible food, and little opportunity to get up and move around make it not as fun and interesting as the train ride where it’s an option.  In the US, unfortunately, trains are not as common a method of travel as overseas, but in Europe, the Euro rail is the best mode of travel as far as I’m concerned. I had the opportunity to travel on it for relatively little cost to several different countries (Spain to France to Italy, and finally Denmark) in a little under two weeks during my college trip to Spain, and I have nothing but good experiences to account for it. 
My second favorite travel option would be biking, but I would need to get a little more experience with actual road biking before I would be totally comfortable with that.  So far, my biking experience extends only to traveling back and forth to work and back on a tiny island on a Schwinn type leisure bike.  I’m not quite ready for riding down the NW coast on Highway 101.  J 

What method of travel would you choose? 

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