Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:01:18 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: I'm definitely going to Worldcon ... I think
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> lubell at cais.com 08/11/02 11:41PM
>>At 06:15 PM 8/10/02 -0400, Keith wrote:
>>If I am stopped for not having "papers please" when I attempt to board
>>at Union Station in two weeks, I will take Metro to Rockville, and
>>attempt to board the same Amtrak train there.  And if I am stopped
>>again, or if I can't reach Rockville in time (the timing will be
>>tight), I will return to downtown DC, and try taking Greyhound.

I do a lot of train trips to NYC.
Depending upon circumstances my tickets are purchased sometimes from a =
clerk ("ID please"  Guess their hoping that when Osama gets a driver's =
license from Maryland etc etc that only they the Mighty Amtrak Clerk will =
notice . . .) or from a machine ("Plastic please.") that I've never been =
asked to show ID.  If you aretravelling on an all reserved train, then =
they ask to see the ticket, which I hope they do in any event.

>
>Where in Rockville can you board Amtrack trains?  I've never heard of =
such
>a thing and I live in Rockville.
>
>>How fragile is one's grip on reality?  If everyone got together and
>>pretended it was tomorrow, how much would you argue before you decided
>>you were confused?  If everyone got together and pretended there was
>>no such place as, say, Delaware, how much would it take to convince
>>you that you were mistaken and they were right?
>
>Delaware exists alright.  I just drove through it today.  I'm less =
certain
>about Kansas.  I only hear about it in a fantasy context (Wizard of Oz,
>Smallville etc.)

Kansas existstoo.
It's really flat.

Highest Elevaton: Mt. Sunflower, Wallace County, 4,039 feet
Lowest Elevation: Verdigris River, Montgomery County, 679 feet
(http://www.geobop.com/World/NA/US/ks/Facts/)

Now, for flatness, standing on I-40 in the Texas Panhandle while hitchhikin=
g . . . my, was that flat . . .

mjw