Ye olde luxury dining trains of the sky

This article has one photo of the sort I'm looking for. Before we achieved jet speeds and planes began falling out of the sky like they had been attacked by a chthuloid horror and then they changed the windows to round windows, planes were envisioned as and designed like luxury train cars in the sky with full tables and served good food.

Then reality hit and people began coming to grips with the fact that the speed, physics, fuel costs etc. simply didn't work at jet speeds.

Historically, peasants didn't much travel. Peasants were tied to the land and required permission to travel. Travel was for the upper classes and modes of travel were based on mental models and expectations of providing the "jet set" with substantial comfort to whatever degree was possible within the technology of the era in question.

When trains became a thing, they initially didn't require things like passports and for a brief period of time wanderlust was an official mental health disorder used to describe people who would hop a train and just go somewhere and seem to forget that they had a wife back home or whatever.

Then travel became more available to the masses and air travel became this awful experience of trying to fit in as many people as possible for as cheap as possible and somehow still turn a profit.

Some comedian joked about you can sit in your closet and run the vacuum cleaner if you want the airplane travel experience. That wasn't what it always was like.

I don't imagine anyone will be interested in this site and I'm not entirely sure where I am going with it. I mostly seem to not travel the way other people travel.

For starters, I just don't really do vacations. Travel is hard on me and I have never had much money and I just can't really comprehend WHY anyone would, say, fly somewhere to spend a week in a hotel and visit the beach. 

I was a military wife and lived like a perpetual tourist for two decades. I got to experience different places by living there for around two to four years and we made lists of touristy stuff and were daytrippers on weekends when we could arrange to go see local stuff.

My high school French teacher did a year of college in Paris. I understand that.

I just don't really understand the whole vacation thing and people seem to travel for that or for work. Either way, they seem to be in a huge hurry to get there and frequently put themselves through hell unnecessarily.

So I don't think my ideas about travel will attract an audience. No one seems to travel like I like to travel, even if they are nominally trying to enjoy themselves in pursuit of this bizarre practice called vacationing.

I can't do that. I have a serious medical condition, so I need to be able to eat well, sleep, take care of myself or it's an ER visit waiting to happen.

And I no longer drive and have lived without a car for something like fifteen or twenty years at this point. I no longer have a driver's license, because I can't safely drive anymore.

But I feel like a freak, like a social reject, like someone barely surviving on the margins of society and I don't think anyone will have any interest whatsoever in my ideas about how to do travel right.