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[QUOTE]Originally posted by dilly: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by RRRICH: [qb] I for one do NOT find the scenery aboard the San Joaquin that "boring." I believe it is more scenic than say, the miles and miles and miles of nothing but trees and kudzu along the tracks on the Silver Service/Crescent routes in the East and SE. After all, the San Joaquin Valley is "America's salad bowl." [/qb][/QUOTE]Kudzu. . . lettuce. . . too many miles filled with either of them make for a monotonous trip (unless, of course, you're a kudzu or lettuce fan). Keep in mind that I wrote that the San Joaquin route was a leading contender -- but not the [i]only[/i] contender -- for the reigning title of Amtrak's most visually unremarkable route. I typically spend all my time on a train simply looking out the window. I don't read while traveling. I don't watch DVD movies. I don't snooze during the day. I don't hang out in the cafe car, drinking with strangers. I simply look out the window, taking it all in, for hours and hours on end. It's why I take the train, whether I'm traveling between Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area on the California Zephyr, or between New York and Baltimore along the NEC. That's why the perfect train trip, for me, contains a mix: natural scenery (mountains, lakes, rivers, rolling countryside, whatever); small towns that look pretty much as they did a century ago; abandoned trackside factories, mills, and railyards; gloomy industrial-era cities that have fallen on hard times; and all those backyards filled with "stuff" that Americans refuse to throw out. Granted, Amtrak isn't responsible for the scenery. Its trains are, first and foremost, designed simply as a means to travel between Point A and Point B. But for me, six solid hours of flat, empty California fields (with the monotony broken only by the occasional pseudo-Spanish condominium development) just doesn't do it. So once again, if anyone looking for a scenic travel experience is wondering whether to take one of the San Joaquin trains or the Coast Starlight, I'd suggest that they choose the latter. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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