This Train Ride Belongs on Your List.
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This Train Ride Belongs on Your List.

Six years ago, I took VIA Rail’s wonderful trans-continental train, The Canadian, and got off in Winnipeg. Two days later—it was about the third week of October—I boarded Train 693, the Hudson Bay, for the two-night, 1100-mile ride north to the little town of Churchill.     The train ride—here we are in the town…

A Few Thoughts on the Wonders of Modern Day Travel — Long-Distance and Otherwise
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A Few Thoughts on the Wonders of Modern Day Travel — Long-Distance and Otherwise

I still find it hard to grasp that tonight I’ll go to bed on Maui, tomorrow night I will be in Los Angeles, and on Wednesday, after a fine dinner with my niece and her husband, I’ll crawl into bed in London. (Tuesday night will be spent at 35,000 feet somewhere over the Arctic Circle,…