I have found train travel more pleasant than being crammed into an airplane. I have been on some decent buses too. Fuel for a train is supposedly 248 passenger miles per gallon. Amtrack runs on freight line track which can be a little rough. Buses may get up to 500 passenger miles per gallon but no dining car. Our 4 kids were pretty well behaved going from Buffalo to Fort Worth with a layover in Chicago. There is always Granpap's riddle about what's the grey stuff in bird dirt. It's bird dirt too. Just for show bring some in a pill bottle.
