It's great up north
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1646650,00.html
The US should look to Canada to find out how to balance both its budget
and its life
Henry Porter
Sunday November 20, 2005
The Observer
I booked the train ticket from New York to Toronto feeling good about
my carbon footprint and imagining a pleasant day gliding north up the
Hudson river to Niagara and the Great Lakes. The landscape was stunning
and I'm glad I went that way. However, I could not recommend it. For
one thing, Amtrak has perfected a meal - the only meal available -
which is the final evolution of convenience food: a molten cheesy,
doughy mass which is optimistically called either a breakfast roll or
cheeseburger, though it approximates neither. For another, the trip
takes 13 hours and includes many stops, the longest of which comes at
the Canadian border, where endearingly - or cunningly - half the
station is occupied by an antiques shop.
Henry Porter
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