Biden's first stop is at the Wilmington Amtrak station, where he'll kick off the depot's renovation, which was sped up by federal stimulus dollars.
The Wilmington station, which Biden has gone in and out of for years as part of his commute to D.C., recently celebrated its 100th anniversary.
Later in the day, Biden heads to Newark and joins Interior Secretary Ken Salazar at the University of Delaware to talk about sustainable energy. Last year, Delaware authorized the creation of a wind farm off its shore, the first of its kind in the U.S., according to the News Journal.
Biden's Amtrak tour was probably inspired by the uproar he caused last Thursday when he let us all in on how he'd been counseling his family about the swine flu.
"I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now. It's not that it's going to Mexico, it's you're in a confined aircraft when one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That's me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation suggesting they ride the subway," Biden told Matt Lauer during a "Today" show interview.
"I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now."
The damage control was almost instantaneous, with White House press secretary Robert Gibbs apologizing for Biden's remarks, and trying to explain what the vice president meant to say.
