To pick up yesterday’s travel theme, the local press is speculating that some of the stimulus money might be used to start work on a high-speed train corridor between the Twin Cities and Chicago. Although it probably won’t be completed until I’m pushing 50, I like the idea of being able to hop on a train and arrive a few hours later in the third-largest city in America. And unlike air travel, I won’t have to get out of my chair and I won’t have to put up with getting frisked by some overeager TSA agent who also wants to swab my ventilator for explosive residue. They might even build a branch to Green Bay, which could spare my parents from making the long, boring drive to visit me and my sister (although I’m probably overdue for a trip back to the Land of Cheeseheads).
