Comments on: My Brilliant Plan II: The Brilliant Plan Strikes Back

By: Christina

Christina — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:58:47 +0000

How delightfully fun. I frequently traveled back and forth by Amtrak from New York (homeland) to the Pacific Northwest (new homeland) throughout the 1990s. LOVED it. I adore train travel (and as I hate flying, it was nice that the train stuck to the ground–though there was a tornado scare once, which may have changed those usually comforting train physics). You’ll love it. You meet some fascinating people and also some really weird wingnuts. And great sights! As well as tons of time to just read and write–hmm, time for another trip…

By: Beleaguered Squirrel

Beleaguered Squirrel — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:53:10 +0000

Yay! I’m excited too! And even more so as I have cleverly managed to read this post tomorrow, which is means it is no longer today and I get to click straight through with no suspense or me badgering you to tell me immediately-right-now-this-minute… because it already IS immediately-right-now-this-minute! Yay!

By: Hannah Chá

Hannah Chá — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:27:35 +0000

What an exciting little post! :-) I’m excited to find out more now… but somehow I’d rather write than I am looking forward to finding out more. Because being excited is far too American-sounding for me. So there, I share your excitement in a lookingey forwardey way. Tomorrow it is, you know, “tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow, you’re only a day awaaaaaaaaaaaay”. Deliberately on purpose, as you blogged about the tap-dancing kid whose voice prompted you to write a sentence that contained the words “bulldog clip”. See? Your readers have attention span. :-)

By: Deeleea

Deeleea — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:10:35 +0000

In 1989 my sister and did that very thing, of course, back then you could go around the whole continent on Amtrack for 30 days on $300US. Ridiculous.

We went from DC down to Orlando, Back up to Chicago, across to Seattle, down to San Diego, up across to Flagstaff, to Chicago again, to Rochester NY, NYC and back to DC. Lots of stops in between. Best.Trip.Ever. I have a box full of badges but none of them as cool as yours, I’d LOVE a whole map of the states in badges. That would be excellent!

By: anna

anna — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:34:18 +0000

I won’t have the internet for the bulk of it - which is actually one of the things that makes trains very good for writing for me, I’m Very Easily Distrated!

It’s also the cornerstones of PROJECT I LIKE A LOT AND WILL TELL YOU ABOUT TOMORROW, but more on that, you know, tomorrow.

Thanks, though. I’m SO excited!

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:28:54 +0000

This is not just a brilliant plan, it is an AMAZING plan. How will you have the internet on trains for all that time to do research though? Or will you go internetless?