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Well, so many things there. Let's see, which can I go back to that I'll actually... I'll kill this amp here over here that's buzzing on me. Well, oh, well, let's see, one thing, if you're traveling and you're doing Amtrak, like to the east, to Chicago from here, it comes in... I think it looks intentional that it comes in to be in the morning, be here, get its maintenance and refueling and ready to turn around and take off for the evening, so it leaves at around 4.30 or 5 and then goes right away into traveling at night through the mountain passes, which destroys really coming in or going out, any possibility of really having those great views on the passes. The solution I found which worked beautifully, especially more in the summer when the weather's... it's still going to be dark when you're going through the pass because it takes that long to get up there. So schedule it for full moon and go sit in the dark stateroom, even if you got... there's nobody in the stateroom, you can just go in there and sit down and the conductor will look at you funny because you've been away, but if you're in a dark stateroom and the views are fantastic with the full moon lighting up all those valleys, going up to and from the passes and through there and the tunnel and everything, it's pretty nice. That's the way around the night problem with Amtrak through, you know, on the Empire Builder. So that little tip and yeah, Sean reminded me of the... I'll go on for a sec.
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