Trains in London

So, after shocking the whole of Gary's family with my big beard I found myself standing on the train platform heading into the city where I would switch lines and then head to the airport. There's something about being in train stations that makes my heart flutter. It's such a shame that so few people in the United States get to experience this feeling. The bigger, more obvious implication is that we dismantled our streetcars and discontinued affordable train travel options in favor of the automobile which is now destroying our way of life. Funny, that the invention which was once the universally accepted symbol of American freedom and independence is now a very large monkey on our backs!

In the distance I suddenly heard a whistle blowing and my heart began fluttering again...