I must have been a 4 year old boy in a past life, because I adore trains.  Aside from subways, I’ve only ever taken two trains as transportation in my lifetime — Sydney-Melbourne and Boston-NYC (but both round trip!) and when Amtrak first announced plans for their train service to Portland a few years ago, I was totally excited, but haven’t had any chance or opportunity to use it, until now, because *I* am going to Boston this weekend to hang out with kb, which is SO FREAKIN’ COOL.  For the price ($44 round trip) it is so worth it to avoid gas, tolls, parking, and you know, DRIVING.  AND I get to be on a TRAIN.

These are the 2 most probable results:

    1:  I will have a fabulous time hanging out with my official IRL (once you’ve eaten Indian food with them and held their infant, you move to IRL friend status, right?) friend IN A CITY (and y’all know how I love the city energy.)

    2:  I will kick my ass all the way home for not having done this trip sooner, especially since they have such a great deal for students.  And then I will probably try to suck the last juices from my childfree youth by coercing Amy to go with me at least once before I have this kid.

Either way, eeee! Boston and KB! WAY COOL, MAN.