Cat Stevens could just roll out a new album for this decade with above title.
It just happens that California governor is touring Asia, seeking bids (and financing) for SF-LA tracks.
If the Chinese won the bid, it wouldn’t be the first time Chinese help lay train tracks for America (during the last century, it was West-bound).
This time, it seeks to drop passengers from downtown to downtown within 3 hours.
Long enough for a nap.
Maybe it will be wi-fi equipped as well.
Fast connection, digitally and physically.
Futuristic? Hardly (the Governor is riding and trying them out on his tour.)
“This is what we need”, he said after getting off a fast train in China.
It will connect the two California, North and South, entrepreneur and entertainment capitals.
The vast expanse of the State has been an obstacle: cattle-raising middle and the two major cities on each end.
I have yet heard a notable song about Modesto (Cesar Chavez?). Just “If you’re going to SF”, or “It never rains in Southern California”.
Maybe it was embedded in “California Dreaming”, Northern, Southern, and Modesto.
A lot of brain, a lot of aspiration.
Facebook team rented a house each summer in Palo Alto to develop killer apps.
Departed HP CEO found job at Oracle within a month.
Things still happen there in California.
And the weather is very cooperating (for Lady Gaga to wear her all-raw-meat outfit, without smelling stinky).
So, the Governor kept saying to the cameras, “I’ll be back”. And the terminator is hopeful that fast train terminals will be built and financed
to fuel the dream and keep them coming fast. The state has been steadily losing its residents to competing Oklahoma and Texas.
Those states did not come without problems (tornado and hurricane) of their own, and obviously the absence of artistic and natural beauty enjoyed by Californians for centuries. Just make sure with the track comes the view of breath-taking Hwy 1, pass Carmel, where Reagan mentioned in his closing. America, the beautiful indeed. And it has done it, its way (Sinatra).
Thang Nguyen 555 