Karen, Just let me know! I am currently debating flying there in my twin or taking commercial. The more people available makes it more interesting. Which small airport are you close to? My sister-in-law lives in the Chicago area and Carolyn and I have stopped at: Midway, Dupage, Romeoville, Aurora, Joliet. I like to try different airports.
Jan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:40:01 EDT Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Transportation to October conference - take Amtrak! Holy Moly!!! That's just horrible! Something to think about, for sure ... Jan's airplane invitation sounds much better (there is a small airport about 10 minutes from me) I agree -- both times I was in Ireland I took their trains everywhere. Incredibly reliable. The US has a ways to go to catch up (soapbox on: the result of cheap gas: soapbox off) Karen Only a side note about AmTrack. I have taken it skiing to Colorado and on two other shorter trips. On the trip to Colorado, the train arrived 6 hours late. On the way back it arrived 13 hours late! No break downs nor blizzards nor other unexpected catastrophe. Just waiting for freight trains to pass! On two short trips (scheduled 3.5 hours), both were over 1 hour late. Amtrak does not own the rails and has to pull over and wait for any freight trains to pass. Other than the horrible on time record, it was not a bad ride. Perhaps going East will be better? Having visited Germany this year, I was quite impressed with thier train system. If Amtrack could maintain a decent on time schedule such as in Germany, people would use them more! -Bob
