On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:08:25 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:05:51 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:07:54 -0400, "Don White"
wrote:

Vic changed his route to Boston where he can pickup an Air Canada flight
that will get him here somewhere around 1900 hrs AST

All Canadians want you to make it to Halifax, while the US could care
less, it seems. Transportation is better than it once was. During the
war there was a supposedly express train from St John to Toronto. It
was supposed to take 24 hours and always took more than 48. They
derisively called it the ' Bullet '.We don't do airline: we plan to
take a train and a boxboat to Amsterdam when the ice goes out. It
leaves Lake Michigan every two weeks. I wonder what the food is like,
the ship is Polish..

Stefan Batory? I'm going aboard one of those to get to Europe in the
next few years - I hope.
I don't fly either. Can pick the ship up close to home, travel part
of my old merchant marine route through the lakes, then right across
the pond.
BTW, one of the Cunard Queens - can't remember if it's the Mary -
isn't bad on price, but you have to pick it up on the east coast.
Polish food is mostly meat and potatoes based. If the cook is good,
it'll be good. As long as you're not a vegan.

Queen Mary. Rode it from Hamburg to Brooklyn, via Southhampton.
I think they are getting 700 or so for two to a room. The room service
burger is not as good as Holland-America. The latter have a bar
directly above the wheelhouse, with three glass walls. A hundred a
day. Compare touring by car. Hundred a day for room, seventy five to a
hundred for gas, twenty to thirty for food. Took the train from NYC to
Iowa. Spotted several steam locomotives, sitting derelict in yards.

Casady