Amtrak baby!

I took the Amtrak for the first time today. Honestly, I was dreading it after my one and only Greyhound experience in 2006. I swore to myself that I will catch a flight the next time I need to get anywhere and Southwest Airlines have been quite helpful to that extent. I must say, a ticket that costs over $450 on other "reputed" airlines costs $120 on Southwest. Who wouldn't want to fly, given that the Greyhound costs just as much anyway?

But back on Amtrak, waiting to pull into my destination (ETA 20 minutes), I decided I wanted to blog about it. So I pull out my trusty computer and here I am, typing away. This ride has been such a pleasant experience that I am now an Amtrak fan (that is, when southwest doesn't fly there). Talking about cheap tickets, I am amazed that Southwest tickets are so cheap compared to other airlines, given gas prices.

Talking about gas prices, I found it so hilarious that the senate, once again called oil executives to answer for the high oil prices. The government actually taxes 20% off expenditure at the gas pump whereas the oil companies get only 6%. However, given the ignorance about these things, the powers that be are doing this little dance around the issue.

And talking about elections, (not really, but I had no real sedge way into the election topic), the Democratic nominee has finally been decided. Poopah for Clinton. People across the world are so excited about Obama. I think Bill O Reilly has it right when he says that everyone is so sick of Bush, they are looking for something as far away from him as possible and that far away thing happens to be Obama.

For me, this has been a very interesting election cycle. An international student studying Political Science, its turning out to be a right royal party - and we just started...