It's like a slow but very roomy airplane with good service

It's 2:00 pm and I'm here in the Hart Memorial Central Library [1] in Kissimmee, Florida [2] with some time to kill. Why I'm in the Hart Memorial Central Library is a story unto itself.

A week and a half ago, my friend Tom Lanahan, a train aficionado, invited me to ride along with him on the Georgia 300 [3], a private rail car that is currently attached to end of the Silver Meteor [4] and heading south. The only catch was that I needed to be in Kissimmee at 1:26 pm today in order to catch the train as it headed south [5].

I didn't miss the train—it's currently running two hours late, where as the north bound Silver Meteor, the train I took to Kissimmee, was on time, arriving in Kissimmee at 1:06 pm on the nose.

Thus, I have some time to kill.

This is the first time I've taken Amtrak [6] and it wasn't a bad experience. The seats are wide, there's plenty of leg room (oh my God the leg room!) and the one-way ticket wasn't expensive at all (one way, since I'll be taking a private rail car back to Chez Boca). Lunch, while a bit on the expensive side (of course—they have a captive audience) was surprisingly good.

And I can't complain about the service. It's been excellent all along.

But there is one thing I can complain about [7] …

[1] http://www.myosceolalibrary.org/hartmemorial/

[2] http://www.kissimmee.org/

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_300

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Meteor

[5] https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Delray+Beach+Station/Kissimmee+Amtrak,+Kissimmee,+FL/@27.3726849,-81.5195028,9z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x88d8dffdb6ec87a9:0x931ec4cee21fe962!2m2!1d-80.090967!2d26.454242!1m5!1m1!1s0x88dd843da3fa87d1:0xd0eddea664f5eb0d!2m2!1d-81.404234!2d28.293835!3e3

[6] http://www.amtrak.com/home

[7] /boston/2015/08/05.2

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