For years, my wife and I had talked about taking a cruise on the Mississippi River and three years ago we finally did it. There are two or three companies...

I’m trying out some ideas on how to improve the political process in this country. Something really has to be done about all these PACs (Political Action Committees). They contribute...

It’s not uncommon for me to hear complaints from people who have not gotten the best advice about train travel from travel agents. And the more complicated the circumstances or...

Ask any professional advertising or marketing person what is the single most effective and least expensive form of advertising and I’ll bet the answer will be, “Word of Mouth.” Take...

I’m really fed up with this damn pandemic!  Because I belong to the most vulnerable class of potential victims (old and decrepit) , and with a wife and daughter functioning...

Americans will drive to the airport, park the car for $25 a day, allow two hours to get through security, then catch a 45-minute flight to see relatives for a...

I’ll wager that a year or two from now, an objective analysis will show that what Amtrak is doing with the long-distance trains during this pandemic might possibly have made...

I’ve never written much about Tahiti and that’s really an oversight because I’ve been there five or six times and enjoyed it very much. Tahiti is the main island of...

I was going through a lot of my photographs yesterday—photos I’ve taken in my travels—and I came across this one: It was taken in the Moscow train station and that’s...

During the worst days of the coronavirus, people were avoiding crowds, which meant they weren’t traveling. As a consequence, ridership on Amtrak’s long-distance trains dropped to around 15% of capacity,...