RARA-AVIS: Bill Crider doesn't like air travel?

Frederick Zackel (fzackel@bgnet.bgsu.edu)
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 12:47:19 -0400 (EDT) I find that highly ironic, since one of the key travel memories in my life
was my return from an MLA convention by train a few years ago. The
train left Union Station, almost got out of the yards (we must have been,
oh, five miles out), and promptly died. Usually being stuck on a
stalled train is no problem, unless you have twelve suspects & a master
detective, but we also had a full-blown blizzard, doors that wouldn't
close, ice building up in the aisles, no electricity, and a complete
absence of train personnel (I figure they went to McDonald's.) It was the
night before New Years Eve, and the winds were howling through the
stranded train. I survived my three hours of hell by reading Bill
Crider's Shotgun Saturday Night, my kind of cozy. Ah, warm memories.

Frederick Zackel

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