- Business class on Amtrak does indeed provide more foot room, and in some cars even enough to really have floor space for a kid to play on. A bonus. It is also in the cafe car and therefore near the tables and benches, which are fun. However, it also has a big thick immobile arm rest in between the seats, making the seat space less flexible, especially for sleeping.
- When you are just learning to walk, it's actually easier to get your train legs. After all, the ground often feels like it's swaying anyway, so this isn't that different.
- If you forget the baby spoons and your company has put you up in a luxury hotel, they might only have the world's biggest soup spoon to offer you. Which will work, but you have to dump the food into the drinking glasses from the bathroom because the spoon won't fit in the jar.
- Luxury hotels have nowhere to change a baby in their common space and are very uncreative about finding one.
- Sometimes the only alternative to putting a kid in a taxi without a car seat is getting drenched to the skin. Luckily, if you have an umbrella, the kid won't mind.
- Stairs are more interesting than your colleagues, no matter how much they want to meet your kid.
- New York City, much like a nice restaurant, is much different, and more challenging, with a one year old than with a six month old.
It wasn't awful (on the work front it was even quite good), but we'll be glad not to be making any more trips like that for a while.