Step away from the Amtrak -Huurmout.
American trains are bad enough, but the food they serve is even worse.
The 'porridge' they serve makes the notorious British rail pork pie of the 1970s as the top of the menu rate from a restaurant in Michelin Star.
And it's not cheap either.
About £ 6 per pot of purple sludge that, when mixed with a jet -boiling hot water, forms an indigo hoop that is just as difficult on the belly as the painfully slow services that run between some cities.
Perhaps you will discover this next year when the US is organizing the Real World Cup – a coming together of 48 countries that compete for the largest prize in international football.
Fans and players will cross this vast country in many ways.
For Chelsea during the club World Cup this summer it is already a whole month for the first class trips – flights and five -star hotels.
Cole Palmer will hopefully follow comparable paths with England next summer.
But everywhere you travel, draw around this huge country to compete in or even watch a football tournament.
America has previously organized a World Cup. In 1994, when Ireland Baas Jack Charlton warned that someone could die from the heat.
Temperatures that have hit 40 degrees here in recent weeks, chelsea vice-captain Enzo Fernandez admitted that he felt dizzy during a competition and had to lie down. Juventus players who ask to get rid of to escape the heat.
The world is now warmer than in the nineties and will be even warmer next year.
Palmer has spoken about the two -hour flights everywhere to drain his legs and souls.
Chelsea's poster Boy player showed up in the club World Cup with a PPE mask over his face because he says he “doesn't hold the smell of planes.”
Unfortunately he will have to go through it again because Americans love to fly and drive.
In 1987 there was a hit film – planes, trains and cars – a comic story of two stranded men trying to make at home in every possible way when Snow paid in their hope to take a jet home.
They are planes and cars for the people here. The trains are a joke.
At least the one who lasted 12½ hours to wear me just 550 miles from Charlotte to Philadelphia to catch up with the Chelsea Charabanc when they started playing from city to city.
You can almost make a similar trip by rail in the UK, but you may fall from the end of our small country in the sea at the end.
But it would also not take more than half a day to do it. It would take about half.
Amtrak's number 80 -service from North Carolina to Pennsylvania is an experience. Good or bad is debatable.
They know that the departure time of 6.45 am means that passengers will get hungry fairly quickly, and they have a prisoner market for the things they pass as food while helping with no more than 40 km / h with a smelly old diesel engine that drags the carriages behind it like a sad old pack -zel.
And once you reach Washington, you wait half an hour to wait while the dieseloco is disconnected and the Electric One is connected – only then can you accelerate at a decent pace.
Chelsea started their club World Cup campaign in Atlanta and were so convinced that they would win their group that they had reserved Miami as their next training basis.
It didn't work completely and they finished second.
Yet they opted for sunny Florida and glamorous South Beach as a temporary headquarters.
This meant flying to their last 16 match in Charlotte and then back to the north to Philly for their quarter -final victory over Palmeiras.
From there it has been to New York, the Big Apple, and although the luxury is completely for the players, they are still tired of being merged into hotel rooms and strange beds.
Downtime was Ping Pong, Basketball, Diners Together and Walks.
Only last week did the French defender Malo Gusto walked straight past me in Greenwich Village, engaged with a few friends and let his photo take all the time.
The thing with America is that it doesn't have to sell itself. It is the richest and most entertaining country in the world. And know it.
It is not surprising that it is run by someone like Donald Trump means that the US has been packed in itself.
It has not been difficult to find a local who has no idea that the club World Cup will actually take place within their borders.
Next year there will not be that much ignorance at the Real World Cup, but will not bet against it.