> TELL YOUR FELLOW AMERICANS that you plan to cross the United States by train, and their reactions will range from amusement at your spellbinding eccentricity

> TELL YOUR FELLOW AMERICANS that you plan to cross the United States by train, and their reactions will range from amusement at your spellbinding eccentricity to naked horror Its not just that its the train use, its the fact that you want to cross America at all! The perception is that it is a large foreign land full of lots of things that can go wrong solely due to incongruent laws. (Mid 1800s) Cross a border and be sold into slavery by bounty hunters? Check (Fiction, but is it?) Transportation breaks down and you are surrounded by mutated hillbillies in the desert? Check (2010s+) Highway robbery of all the money on you by some random municipality's police themselves under protection of the state? Check (2010s+) Get thrown into an old people's home under a guardianship racket that the doctor's and the court system are all invested in? Check Be kidnapped and sold into illegal sex slavery? Be kidnapped and sold into legal sex slavery in the desert without adequate means of getting help? But yeah none of that is likely to happen and these are irrational fears, but you can ALSO just fly over all of that noise.