As the author of a book on train travel and the guy behind this blog, I get emails from people on a whole variety of subjects, although most have to...

Things can and do go wrong when we travel. And if it happens while we’re out of the country, the problems become instantly worse and the unpleasant, expensive and inconvenient...

I have been remiss. There was a time when I was posting something here four or five times a week, but I just checked and it’s been seven days ....

Much—actually most—of my traveling has been done solo. I love everything about traveling. My wife not so much. OK, I’m not all that fond of the flying part, but I...

On the off chance this damn caronavirus won’t last forever, I’ve started thinking about where I would go and what I would do the next time I travel. I’m thinking...

Note: What follows is an extended comment from a regular reader from Belgium. His observations are so interesting, I am using them in full below . . . with many...

Amtrak has operated at a deficit for years, and for years Congress has pressured them to achieve break even. So Amtrak cut costs, but they did so by eliminating many...

The Japanese have just introduced a new generation of high speed trains. It’s been put into service on the Tokyo-Osaka run and has a top speed of 360 km/hour. That...

I’ve been having persistent problems with this damn blog. I am unable to figure out why I am sometimes unable to get a space between paragraphs. For example, there should...

It’s 2500 miles from here to the U.S.mainland . . . and that’s just to California. It’s another 2,000–3,000 miles to mainland cities in the mid-west and on the east...