Heading to Baltimore — by train
June 24th, 2010 at 12:35 am ETI’m on my way to Baltimore tomorrow afternoon for the Americans for the Arts convention. I do own a car, and I’d been planning to drive — I even told the parking lot where my car lives that I’d be picking it up tomorrow.
But now that it’s time to go, I don’t feel like driving. It’s going to be 93 degrees tomorrow. And I don’t have air conditioning. And I have a full morning, starting early. And there will be traffic and I’ll be on I-95 for three hours. And the train is so convenient! Even with the schlepping to Newark and the waiting for the train, I’ll be in Baltimore a full hour earlier on the train, and I’ll travel in air-conditioned comfort…with wireless Internet.
So I’m leaving the car in Brooklyn, and taking the train.
There are things I might want to do in Baltimore that would be easier with the car, but so what? I’ll just do other things instead. Or, like, I’ll hail a cab — just like I would here at home if I found myself in Williamsburg at 1am. It’s not a deal.
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