This is an All-Ears English podcast, episode 964, how to get back on track in your English conversations.

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Hey Lindsay, how's it going?

Hey Michelle, excellent. I'm feeling really good. It's summertime, so I'm happy.

Yes, that's right. That's right. Who's not happy? Yeah, really. So you love to travel, and I love to travel, right?

Yes.

So when you travel around the country, like especially to places that aren't necessarily that far, do you ever take the train?

So around the US, you mean?

Yeah.

Actually not as much. Like last two summers ago I took a road trip across the US and I like I like traveling by car when I travel in the United States because it's just

But I did see an article in an article in a magazine recently about the idea of taking

a train in Amtrak across the US and I thought that would be a cool adventure.

That is cool.

You know, I would take the train more, but it's very expensive.

Is it? Yeah. Especially because the value is not that great. Like Amtrak is not really that great,

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