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Flying sucks. If you're not concerned with getting there in a hurry, the train is best, especially for vacation travel. The trip is part of the destination, and you're always in good shape when you disembark.
I've only been on a couple of long train trips, from San Diego to Seattle and back on the Coast Starlight, and a trip or two up and down Thailand on the state railroad. Great to watch the scenery roll past; you see things you'll never see from cars or even plains. Good people to talk to on the way; I always make friends on trains, and I'm not particularly outgoing so you see how it is.
Will always remember the Thai waiters in white shirts and bowties, carrying buckets of ice and beer up and down the aisle at sunset as we cruised out of Bangkok alongside the river and the evening breeze wafted in through the sleeping car's big open windows. Will also remember learning how to cope with a squat toilet in a train going 50 mph on rough track!
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