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| Above, an Amtrak train arrives at Gallup Station. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
One has to be living on a desert isle with no communication to not know that gasoline and diesel prices have been soaring during these past weeks.
But there is an alternate people should look into for vacation travel and saving some money: trains.
That is the subject of a new article by Travel + Leisure.
They start it with:
On a recent cross-country road trip from New York to New Mexico, I overheard a couple laughing as they filled up their SUV. Their laughter faded as gas began climbing above the $100 mark. It was the first time they'd ever hit three digits when filling up their family's vehicle.
Across the United States, road trippers are feeling the pain at the pump, and experts predict that prices will continue to soar. For Americans looking to plan their summer travels, that raises the question of whether road tripping is really the best way to see the country right now. Could train travel emerge as the alternative? It might just make financial sense.
To read more, go here.
1 comment:
Our train service in Canada is sporadic, horrible, and expensive. Anyway, even if train travel might make financial sense for a single driver, if you have a husband and wife and three or four kids, then you're looking at five or six times the price on the train, whereas it doesn't affect the amount of gas used by the car.
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