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There is an annual ringing gathering in Quebec City. It's a long car trip (8 hours for someone who stops to pee and knows that it will take some time at the border*) so I wanted to try to do it on the train. To go all the way on public (bus from home to Red line to Amtrak to Via rail) would take more than 30 hours one way. It would involve going to NEW YORK CITY (where the salsa comes from, for people who remember the old TV commercial) to change trains the first time and then a change in Montreal to the Canadian system). Starting out by driving to the Albany Rensselaer Amtrak station would cut out a big chunk, but it still might require a night in Montreal, which is not necessarily a terrible thing. Taking the train to Albany directly would add a night there, because the connections don't line up.

* But why would Canada let me cross the border anyway? There is the whole tariff thing, plus our Secretary of Homeland Security is one of the biggest assholes in the administration, which is saying a lot.

Steven Chase from the Ottawa Globe and Mail referencing the Boston Globe story about Noem at the library that is on the border between Vermont and the province of Quebec:
"She repeatedly stepped over taped boundary marker in middle of the library, referring to Canada as the "51st State" every time she stood in Canada. "

Unrelated to my presumably abandoned train journey, she was wearing a flak jacket in Arlington, VA the other day, pretending to be ICE, pretending that she was in some kind of danger. No ICE agent has been killed in the line of their disgusting duty. People who are trying not to be deported don't tend to commit violent acts in general, and specifically not against arresting officers.