My aunt and I are taking a flight soon.

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64. You got that right!!

Trains did indeed run on time (or close to it). Whether up and down the Rhein, over to Berlin, over to NL or Belgium, or down to Paris of Switzerland. You could count on getting to where you were going according to schedule. Plus, you could even dine in the dining cars!

When we had road trips together (more frequent back then) the first guy from my Dutch office (a rare retirement--he is 79) and I used to have a freshly cooked turkey steak in herb butter with fresh roasted potatoes and onions. In the 1990s, you could actually dine in the dining car (imagine!). AND we got to where we were going on time. These days, the "dining" cars have pre-frozen meals that get stuck in micro-waves and, if you're lucky, come close to having a taste to them. IF the electricity for the micro-wave oven is running, and IF the dining car is manned, that is. You can't always count on one or the other, and seldom on both. Plus, if the whateveritis in the plastic bag can be served, it's still a fifty-fifty bet that it has more taste to it than the left sleeve of my sweater.