I envy some of the travel opportunities Europe offers. I like Amtrak trains here in the US, but they are slow, and share rougher freight track, which also leads to delays when freight has priority. I have taken the bus across half the country before, but I doubt I'll do that again. And I refuse to fly in the post-9/11 world of TSA security theater, where they really do invade my privacy, but demonstrably fail abysmally when tested at stopping weapons or bombs by their own penetration testing.