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Not too many places have a subway or an 'L'...and they are quite the experience....

I did ride the subway in New York City....we were staying with my dads cousin, who lived in New Jersey near New York City...it was the year of the New York Worlds Fair, and our family wanted to go, my Dad refused to drive his car in New York City...so from my cousins we took a bus to some station in New York City, and from there we caught the subway to get to the fair..

Dad felt that would be much easier than driving to the fair, getting lost probably, and then trying to find and pay for parking....so his solution was to use the subway....we were used to the Subway in Chicago, so he figured no problem...

Actually it was a little imtimidating at first, because we did not know the New York City subway system...but since most people in the tunnel were going to the fair, we just figured to follow the crowd and we got there really quick....

Also the BART train in San Francisco, goes underground for a while, and then is outside and elevated for a while...three years ago, BigDom and I were staying in Oakland, and we caught the BART train, on the outside elevated track, and then it went underground and took us to San Francisco...I must say, the BART train was a luxury ride, compared to the subways of Chicago...newer trains, bigger seats, just really nice...

We do have a lot of similarities....we were both born in the same year, both born and raised in big cities, both had a brother, and two parents in the home, so I guess that accounts for having similar experiences...

And we both love to read, to Freep, to shop, and we both love basset hounds....I guess in some ways we are kindred spirits...