train in vain
as part of its fall foliage tour, the american orient express goes through montpelier. there was an article about it in the local paper that made me curious enough to check out their web site.
as a result, i am now dying to take one of their trips. unfortunately, it costs the very earth — for two of us, any of their tours would go for a cool $10k or so. (do you like how worldly that makes me sound? "a cool $10k"? you're just lucky i didn't call it "ten large.") if i put $5 a week into a mayonnaise jar, it would take me 2,000 weeks to save that — that's 38 years and change. if i put $50 a month into a mayonnaise jar, it would take me 16 years and change. god. that's an awful lot of mayonnaise.
we saw it stopped on the tracks the other day, long past peak leaf week. i later read in the paper that the stop was a great success — and that there had been an open house where locals could get on the train and have a look around. imagine my sadness at missing that.
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but however old you are now plus 16 REALLY ISN'T THAT OLD.
Posted by: auntb | October 21, 2003 06:12 PM
Trains are overated. You could take a hell of a cruise for that kind of money.
Posted by: mizax | October 22, 2003 11:32 AM
maybe i'll just put $5 a week in my trusty mayonnaise jar for 76 years, so i can do both.
Posted by: julie | October 22, 2003 02:16 PM