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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