After a delay out of Washington of roughly 90 minutes, my Amtrak train departed Union Station for New York around 11:30am, and got me into New York around 3pm. Today’s travel scenes:

And here is a video that I shot on Amtrak on the way to New York, inspired by me musing about the possibility of the Hyperloop and how strange this normal-seeming experience might be in a few decades:

Freezing in New York, and I only went outside to exit the 1 train at Rector Street for my hotel. Tomorrow is the Vita Institute’s New York seminar. Thinking of attending the full week Vita Institute at Notre Dame this summer.