I'm headed south today on the only high-speed train in the US, to suburban Virginia to party with the founders of AOL. They have something to celebrate, the company they started 25 years ago is still here.  

I was invited as one of the friends of the company, which is quite an honor. The badge I'll wear will be from Living Videotext, the company I started in the same timeframe. It is long-gone, though I'm proud to say that many of its ideas survive. 

And it's cool that the northeast is so compact that you can make a ground trip between major cities in two or three hours and return the next day. Very different from the west coast.