My apologies. This is off-topic. <br><br>I thought I could avoid planes altogether. I never really liked flying to begin with, and, as of Sept. 11, I said I'd never fly again. After all, I could always take the train. Yeah, right.<br><br>My wife and I were planning to go to Las Vegas for our 10th anniversary sometime this year or next, whenever we saved up enough. Well, just try arranging to take a train out there. We're talking DAYS of travel there and DAYS of travel back. Not hours. Somehow, I keep thinking we've got bullet trains as does Japan. No, we don't.<br><br>It takes about five hours to fly to Las Vegas. It took us about six hours to fly to London for our honeymoon, and that's transatlantic. Basically, if you want to get anywhere in the United States, and back, within a reasonable amount of time, you have to take a plane. There's no way out of it. Groan.<br><br>I wish Scotty would get the transporter working.<br><br>If anyone has encouraging words, I'd love to hear them.<br><br>