Jim Armstrong Wrote:
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> The G&Q provided a most memorable trip for many
> reasons, not least of which was the opportunity to
> ride anywhere you wanted. On steam charters and
> also on the passenger trains, you were free to
> ride up on top of the cars, if you so wished. I
> spent most of the five days it took us to travel
> from Guayaquil (on the coast) to Quito on the top
> of a boxcar.
>
Ecuador is blessed with far fewer lawyers per capita than the lawsuit-happy U.S. If people would take responsibility for their own actions, perhaps we could follow Shakespeare's advice: "First, kill all the lawyers" (I recommend starting with those in D.C. and on the board of the CHS). Fan trips would become a lot less expensive and a lot more fun if the railroads didn't have to pay so much for liability insurance.