Air Travelers - New Restrictions

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If you fly a lot, be aware of new restrictions on batteries.

Basically, if it's installed in a device, you're fine.

If not, then it cannot be in your checked luggage. You can carry batteries in carry on if they're individually wrapped in plastic and smaller than a certain size (in terms of power, not physical size).
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This shit is just never gonna get changed is it? I'll never, ever be able to carry toothpaste outside a plastic bag again on a flight, will I?
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Amtrack is looking better and better. Those trips to Europe are going to be time consuming since it'll be on a ship.
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Amtrack - all the cost of a plane ticket, but with worse scheduled departure times and 10 times as long to get there.

I looked into Amtrack in 2006.... pretty much everything about it was horrible.
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The train from Windsor to Toronto is not bad and since you really don't need a car in Toronto, that was one less hassle. Of course, Canada is to rich for my blood now. Glad we went there a couple years back.
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smh6921 wrote:The train from Windsor to Toronto is not bad and since you really don't need a car in Toronto, that was one less hassle. Of course, Canada is to rich for my blood now. Glad we went there a couple years back.
Yeah but that wasn't Amtrack.
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Picky, picky. It was a train and not a plane.
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I think I'd be more apt to go Greyhound than go on a train.

For fun I looked up what it'd take to get to Los Angeles from Louisville.
$99 on Greyhound, taking 48 hours, 25 minutes. (Greyhound goes anywhere for a max of $99 if you book a week ahead of time... 10% off for military folk).

That same trip is $182.50 on Amtrak, for the 77.5 hour trip. $260.50 for the 51.25 hour trip. $274.50 for the 83.5 hour trip.

Now, to be fair, there is no Amtrak leaving Louisville so that includes a 2:09 Amtrak ride to Indianapolis (which they book as part of the package). But still!
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I was once forced to grayhound between the middle of West Virginia to the coast of North Carolina, about 6.5 hours by car.

The bus took over 24 hours.
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Yeah, buses take way to fucking long.
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Which is why the 48 hours KY ---> L.A. seemed funny. But I guess it must be some sort of express.
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Here's the schedule. Lotta frigg'n stops... in Texas alone!
LOUISVILLE, KY 12:30am GLI 1115
NASHVILLE, TN 02:30am GLI 1115
NASHVILLE, TN Transfer 03:15am :45 GLI 1529
MEMPHIS, TN 07:00am 08:15am 1:15 GLI 1529
FORREST CITY, AR 09:10am 09:10am GLI 1529
LITTLE ROCK, AR 10:40am 11:15am :35 GLI 1529
TEXARKANA, AR 01:30pm 02:05pm :35 GLI 1529
DALLAS SOUTH PARK &, TX 05:05pm 05:10pm :05 GLI 1529
DALLAS, TX 05:30pm GLI 1529
DALLAS, TX Transfer 06:15pm :45 GLI 1401
IRVING, TX 06:40pm 06:40pm GLI 1401
ARLINGTON, TX 07:05pm 07:05pm GLI 1401
FT WORTH, TX 07:30pm 07:40pm :10 GLI 1401
WEATHERFORD, TX 08:15pm 08:15pm GLI 1401
ABILENE, TX 10:15pm 10:45pm :30 GLI 1401
BIG SPRING, TX 12:35am 12:40am :05 GLI 1401
ODESSA, TX 01:40am 01:45am :05 GLI 1401
VAN HORN, TX 04:30am 04:50am :20 GLI 1401
EL PASO, TX 05:50am 07:00am 1:10 GLI 1401
DEMING, NM 08:50am 08:50am GLI 1401
LORDSBURG, NM 09:50am 10:05am :15 GLI 1401
TUCSON, AZ 12:35pm 12:50pm :15 GLI 1401
PHOENIX, AZ 02:40pm 03:40pm 1:00 GLI 1401
BLYTHE, CA 05:00pm 05:30pm :30 GLI 1401
SAN BERNARDINO, CA 08:15pm 08:25pm :10 GLI 1401
RIVERSIDE, CA 08:40pm 08:45pm :05 GLI 1401
LOS ANGELES, CA 09:55pm


There are several others that day that take 1 or 2 hours more, a couple that 3 hours, and one that's 4 hours longer. But still, those are all in the ballpark.

Amtrak 's times are all longer, and all cost significantly more. But I assume the ride will be more comfortable, and the people less creepy.



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