I wish I took more trains. I know it's faster to fly or cheaper to drive, but I really like that any mood is appropriate on a train—you can miss the place you're leaving and anticipate your destination in equal parts. That's what these songs do, too.
When all else fails, we can travel the oldest of old-fashioned ways: By foot. Almost every route involves at least a few steps. And the feeling of facing the wind—whether standing in the middle of a crosswalk or atop a mountain—is awesome. That's probably why we found so many songs about walking, past every point, on any given journey.
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I would probably do the same in any city. I carried a TAP card in the days of paper tickets and boarded the Expo line on its opening day in 2012. Sometimes I subtly shame friends for wasting gas to drive to one another's apartments, because we're all in college and live at most two miles from one another. But my friends unfailingly reply to my jabs with some version of, "Come on, this is Los Angeles. I'd take public transit in a second if we were in ______," which they fill with Chicago, San Francisco, or Boston.
