Travel by train isn't too bad if you have some time to devote to it. I'd advise taking along a camera, an mp3 player, some books or magazines, games or playing cards and earplugs. On the way to Iowa the guy in the seat right behind me snored. And not in a normal annoying snore way but tons worse. I actually had earplugs in and I still heard this guy. I jumped awake as soon as he started because I was sure someone on the train was dying. It sounded like someone was trying to desperately breathe through liquid-filled lungs. Dude, if you're out there? Get that checked out. The only people who should sound like that are people who are dying. On the plus side, it made every snorer I encountered after that just a
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