When he was in the US Senate, President Biden was famous for taking Amtrak home to Wilmington, Delaware, each night and he often was called “Amtrak Joe” for his enthusiasm about passenger rail. Indeed, people who live in the Northeast Corridor from Washington to Boston find rail travel whether it be from Amtrak or other passenger lines to be a regular part of life.
I include myself among people who enjoy traveling by rail, and to celebrate New Year’s Day 2020, my wife and I took the overnight train from Seattle to Sacramento and thoroughly enjoyed our trip. When we go to San Francisco, we usually take the Amtrak to and from Sacramento and find the trip to be comfortable and relaxing. We also used Amtrak to take us to Monterey and back on an overnight trip a couple of years ago and we’d do it again.
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âWhat exactly are people buying?â, is a question that keeps bugging anyone with the time or curiosity to check what is going on in cryptocurrency markets. The question pops up every hype cycle, and it never makes sense. In 2017 people were buying âtokensâ to spend on to yet-to-be-launched websites; in 2020 they were buying âyamsâ, memes play-acting as financial assets; last week, someone shelled out $69 million in cryptocurrency to buy a ânon-fungible tokenâ, or NFT, linked to a digital collage designed by graphic artist Beeple. Now there is an auction for a tweet; currently, the highest bid is $2.5m.