{"id":536,"date":"2006-08-04T16:59:10","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T20:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=536"},"modified":"2006-08-04T16:59:10","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T20:59:10","slug":"train-promised-visit-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"train, promised visit, and friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our trip was lovely but exhaustingly hot and I just couldn&#8217;t face doing anything more strenuous than eating ice cream and napping on the couch when we got home last night. So Thursday&#8217;s regular Three Beautiful Things appear today instead:<\/p>\n<p>1. Eri and the Internet gods made it possible for us to take Amtrak to New York for a very reasonable price. The train takes about the same amount of time as driving (although maybe a little less), but you don&#8217;t have to find a parking spot for it. And while it takes more time than flying, it is more spacious, they let you use electronic devices the whole time, and they don&#8217;t forbid cell phones (unless you want to avoid them by travelling on the Quiet Car). We experienced a few difficulties with their 1-800 number, but the people at the station were kind and helpful. Overall a very nice experience.<\/p>\n<p>2. We made reservations over the weekend to take a long weekend trip to visit Rudi&#8217;s mom in September. She has been cajoling us to visit her for a while, but I think she thought it might be a lost cause as we head into the fall semester. The fact that the <a href=\"http:\/\/yarnharlot.ca\/blog\/\">Yarn Harlot<\/a> will be speaking a few blocks from Jenny&#8217;s house has nothing (<em>nothing<\/em>, I say!) to do with the timing of our visit.<\/p>\n<p>3. Karen&#8217;s Michael remarked that he thought it unusual that people a decade out of college should still have such close bonds as I do with some of my college friends. It hadn&#8217;t occurred to me, but I suppose it&#8217;s true. But I have whole handfuls of people from college I am still in touch with (at least around birthdays and Christmas if not more frequently) and who sometimes read the blog (hi!), so I guess I am remarkably lucky. Maybe it helps that most of us were, at one point or another, part of the substance-free crowd in college, so we were a tightly knit bunch of characters to begin with. But there were plenty of other folks who were also part of that community at the same time with whom I never had a bond or with whom I lost touch, so I don&#8217;t think that accounts for it wholly. 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