There is no reason to cross the country by train, but I did it anyway.

TELL YOUR FELLOW AMERICANS that you plan to cross the United States by train, and their reactions will range from amusement at your spellbinding eccentricity to naked horror that they, through some fatal social miscalculation, have become acquainted with a person who would plan to cross the United States by train. Depending how you slice it — time or money — there are either 61 or 960 immediate reasons not to travel by Amtrak trains from New York City to Los Angeles.....
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/20/magazine/train-across-america-amtrak.html