The California Zephyr offers a more scenic route and I love those wonderful parlor cars on the Coast Starlight, but I’ll always have a soft spot for the Empire Builder....
CHICAGO–The ride here from Boston on the Lake Shore Limited was really enjoyable. For one thing, the train passes through countryside that starts all my old New England genes clanging...
Well, I made it. Comfortably, as it turned out, but with plenty of stress and some remarkable support. I left my little Parisian hotel at 5:15 yesterday morning, nipped...
SIENA, ITALY–Fifty-plus years ago, the gag definition of “mixed emotions” was watching your mother-in-law drive off a cliff in your brand new car. I’ve got a new one: “Mixed...