>> To hop in a car and drive for eight hours to visit someone would >> be unheard of in most other countries, but is fairly common in the USA. > >There are a number of reasons for this. The first is the absence of any >real intercity mass transit except for airlines. Our long distance >passenger rail system, except for a very few areas, was very effectively >killed off in the last half of the 20th century.
One thing I've noticed, that I've never heard comment upon from a single other person, is that it seems Amtrak does offer a Eurail-style pass (i.e., pay a fee, go pretty much anywhere you want for a month or two), but *only to foreigners*. Given the gas and money spent on driving over summer and other vacations by Americans, this has always seemed wrong to me. Amtrak does have other more limited passes, but confining the big one to non-Americans just seems bizarre. I must be missing something. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/O10svD/Me7FAA/AG3JAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
