AccordionBruce
@Br3nda @tbaldauf
And a book tour by train across the country?
Or to a single festival or event if there aren’t others lined up along the route?
There’s no way I can tour my #accordion book in North America 😢
There’s bands who have done tone tours by bicycle 🚲
North America is so damn big
Times I wished I lived in Europe 🪗.6
Author readings could so easily be virtual
But I’d miss talking with real people
Maybe pair local author events? Vancouver/Berlin
AccordionBruce
@Geoffberner explained to a European that touring in Canada is something like “Tonight’s gig is in Amsterdam, now drive through a blizzard because our next show is a tiny club in Kazakhstan”
Strypey
@AccordionBruce
> North America is so damn big
Bigger than China, where you can get almost anywhere by train, many of them by electric fast train or sleeper train?
Strypey
@fgraver
> together, Canada, USA, Mexico... — ie. North America — are more than twice the the size of China and... bigger than the largest country in the world, Russia
OK, but Russia also seems to offer better rail services than North America;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_Russia
... as does India;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_India
... although neither is as advanced as China. If you look at rail across China, India and Russia as a whole, that's much bigger than North America.
Fredrik Graver
@strypey @AccordionBruce @Br3nda @tbaldauf Canada, China, and USA are all pretty similar in size — in the world, Canada is no. 2, China no. 3, and USA no. 4*.
But together, Canada, USA, Mexico (which is no. 14 in the world) — ie. North America — are more than twice the the size of China and, in fact, bigger than the largest country in the world, Russia. So yes, North America is so damn big.
Should there be better rail offerings in North America? Of course there should. But the problems posed by sheer size are non-trivial.
* depending on how you count, USA can be larger than China — but they are regardless pretty close.
clacke
@lizzard Similar gap between two given cities, but the two US cities have 500 k people each, while the two Chinese cities have 5 M people each.
lizzzzard
@clacke @strypey @tbaldauf @Br3nda @AccordionBruce the US have bigger gaps between their cities than China? really? I've been on a two-night train tour within China, and it seemed quite empty between the large cities. but since that was in my teenage years and I had no part in the planning, my perception could be way off.
Not trying to question your statement here, it's just counter-intuitive for me and I'd like to know more.
clacke
@strypey It's big and empty, compared to China. That doesn't entirely work as an excuse though. Mostly US infra is a policy failure rather than a natural consequence.
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