When I lived in the USA, I flew almost every month - for work, for interviews, for a few days in some nice place. It really was like catching a bus. But, man was it stressy. Just getting to the airport, going through the security theatre, commuting on soulless American freeways for hours on end.

Now that I live in Europe I do the same, but with trains - and it is a far more pleasant experience.

I've even just taken the train for a couple of days so that I could get some work done - nothing gets the neurons firing better than an 8 hour train-ride to Prague or an overnighter to Hamburg or Paris.

Its a pretty decent office environment too, if you book things right, or take a sleeper car. I know some folks who just take the train to work, not to get to work, on a regular basis. I absolutely love to be able to see the landscape scroll by while I wait for a build.. and have even had a TV set up in my terrestrial offices with such videos on in the background, although I confess that these days I really like those hour-long "walk through <city>" videos as a viable attention-boosting tool.

And, this being Europe, Internet access is not so bad - never had issues with my remote shells being terminated due to altitude limits or zoning issues. Beer spills, and the opening of the disco car, on the other hand ..