In the hustle and bustle of today's society, people get so caught up in getting places fast, that they forget that the trip itself can be enjoyed and reveled in. Let's slow life down for a second and take a quick walk down memory lane... Remember the days of top hats, walking 10 miles uphill both ways to get to school, and saying words like "whence" and "erstwhile"? Of course not because that was like 100 years ago. But don't all of those things just sound really cool? What if you could say stuff like that? Well, here at BGI Inc., we have a nice little solution of combining the past and the present.
There are certain activities that I have found in which a majority of people like to participate in. Included in these are traveling, partying, mingling, eating, sleeping, etc. In an attempt to incorporate all of these things, we decided that it would be a good idea to take a train ride across America. Although none of what was previously said had any bearing on our decision. As with most of our ideas, it began with us sitting around watching TV at Ahop's place. At the time, he was living next to some train tracks. So, naturally , it was suggested that, in an attempt to escape our somewhat crappy boring lives, we should just hop on the train like hobos and just go wherever it takes us.
There are certain activities that I have found in which a majority of people like to participate in. Included in these are traveling, partying, mingling, eating, sleeping, etc. In an attempt to incorporate all of these things, we decided that it would be a good idea to take a train ride across America. Although none of what was previously said had any bearing on our decision. As with most of our ideas, it began with us sitting around watching TV at Ahop's place. At the time, he was living next to some train tracks. So, naturally , it was suggested that, in an attempt to escape our somewhat crappy boring lives, we should just hop on the train like hobos and just go wherever it takes us.
That quickly evolved into the question of whether or not passenger trains still existed and, if so, what it would cost and how awesome it would be to take one on vacation. It quickly became a reality when we found out that passenger trains do exist. I became more excited than the time Maury said the DNA tests find Anthony Hopkins is NOT the father, only to have that ecstasy be yanked away just as quickly as it entered. This idea is probably the one we actually took significant time to research and try to make work.
After about an hour from the conception of this idea, we had devised a nice little trip that would take us to the likes of New Orleans, L.A., and Chicago over a span of about two and a half months. The possibilities were endless. Disneyland, Bourbon Street, Chicago style pizza, Bill Simmons, Oprah. These were all suddenly in play. We would stay in each city for a week or two and then hop back on the train to our next wonderful destination. We would be modern day Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer living up life and experiencing the world in a whole new way, while getting into some mischievous adventures. Maybe we could even write a blog (not nearly as popular then) or have some sort of book with lots of pictures. Unfortunately, like most of our ideas, it kind of died when we realized that the travel time between locales was measured in days and the fact that it was surprisingly expensive to travel via rail.
The nostalgia behind this makes it appealing. Plus, you get to feel like you are a character in a black and white movie. So if you happen to have a couple thousand bucks and a couple of months to kill, email us, sign up to blog about it and let's find you some places to stay in these areas.
The nostalgia behind this makes it appealing. Plus, you get to feel like you are a character in a black and white movie. So if you happen to have a couple thousand bucks and a couple of months to kill, email us, sign up to blog about it and let's find you some places to stay in these areas.
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