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- Nov 7, 2011
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Thank you for your thoughts. We are moving ahead with plans for our trip. The train tickets arrived last week in the mail, and we have about 4 and a half weeks to go. I've made notes of all the excellent suggestions and information received on these forums, and we are all very excited.As a statistician in a former incarnation, I cringe when I hear statements like this.But, I'm also getting nervous. I've read stories of how awful and dirty the coach bathrooms can be, stories of unruly and intoxicated passengers, rude staff, etc. and I hope I'm not making a mistake taking my kids on this journey.
Tell you what I'll do. If it will help you get over your nervousness, I'll sell you awful and dirty bathroom insurance. For a $1 premium, I'll sell you a $100 policy that pays off if your coach's bathroom is worse than mine at home. Same for drunk and disorderly insurance.
But more than that, I would hate to see the kids miss out on the educational and maturing experience. A dirty bathroom or even a drunk won't injure them permanently. I once put my 14 year old daughter on the dirty dog in Salina, KS heading for Denver. She lived through it; but the best thing about it was it disabused her of the idea that everyone in the world is upper middle class.
For the record, I know a dirty bathroom or drunk won't scar them for life. In fact, we live in Las Vegas, and while our neighborhood is very nice, we spend a lot of time down on the Strip where we see more than our fair share of drunks, rude people, homeless people, dirty walkways, dirty bathrooms, etc. among many other unmentionables! I'm sure everyone will be fine.
I suppose it's just the unknown that was causing my nervousness. Thanks again!