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Taking the Amtrak, Then and Now

An ode to the meditative power of train travel

Meghan Gunn
Human Parts
Published in
4 min readMar 29, 2021

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Snowy Amtrak platform.
Photo: Dipanjan Chatterjee/Unsplash

After one horrific Megabus experience in 2012, I began taking the Amtrak everywhere instead. What’s better than staring longingly out of a train window, Sufjan in your earbuds, a vast landscape stretched before you? It never mattered where I was going, Lollapalooza 2015 or a wholesome…

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