Nice! Yeah .. I've found as I've aged, I really need scenery somewhere, scrolling by in the background, if I try to travel-work. I guess I get claustrophobic without it ..
I've taken similar train rides as you describe, albeit all over Europe.
Trains are a delightful way to travel - and as well, get some good work done. Some of my happiest code was written while castles and rivers and villages scrolled by on the window ..
In my opinion the 'long slow travel .. while sleeping/working' method of getting around is far more preferable to the 'jet age tin-can' mode, no matter how far and fast. I'd happily take a train anywhere in the world, were such a thing feasible ..
Until we can define intelligence, we cannot create artificial intelligence. We still do not know what intelligence actually is - bloviating academics clambering for subsidies to support their habits, notwithstanding.
SNABB is not just a great networking tool, its also one of the best users of the Lua VM out there .. I've learned so much for my Lua-based job, just by looking through the SNABB sources. I highly recommend anyone getting into Lua to have a few days worth of code-reading ..