I really want to spend three days on a train from SF to PHL at three times the price of a 4 hour air flight. Makes perfect sense to me.
Talk about DUH!!
I learned this back in the 1960’s when I inquired as to the price of a train ticket from New England to NYC. It was the same as a plane ticket! I took a plane once to Newark ( a turboprop ) but I ended up as a regular bus rider. I could get a commuter train to NJ from the NYC Port Authority bus terminal, but I sometimes got a car ride. “The tube” was right there to go to Hoboken, and then the Erie Lackawana stopped right near my house.