Take the Amtrak at Penn Station at this point

This is actually pretty similar to what some coworkers visiting from EU wanted to do.

They were here on a two week work trip and I asked them what they were doing for their weekend. It was something like "We rented a car and are going to go to New Orleans, then to Nashville, up to New York City, over to the Grand canyon, and maybe San Francisco if we have time before we head back to the office"

I had to explain that the state we were in was larger than their country and they couldn't cover that much ground in two days even if they only drove and didn't stop once.

We had a good laugh and then just did a hike on Saturday :)

Edit : "in Europe 100km is a long distance and in the US 100 years is a long time". Forget where I heard that but it seems accurate

Why would you even go there ? Go to Canada

Conversely, I, as an American who had the opportunity to spend a few months in Germany, was surprised at how close all the countries were.

Great culture in all the places I went (Brussels and Prague were my two standout favorites!) Traveling was hella cheap. The food was fire everywhere I went. The architecture was INCREDIBLE. And the knowledge that you could go to the hospital for less than $100 was nuts. Don't even get me started on how legitimately cool it is to sit in a 1000 year old pub.

I didn't want to come back. I nearly cried when I got the return flight info.

It still shocks me to tell people "Yeah, I lived in Germany for a bit and some weekends we would fuck off to France."