The Lansing family has owned this farm for a hundred years. Don Lansing, born and raised in Dyersville and the current owner of the property, surveys the activity going on all around him and smiles. “Pretty typical for a summer day,” he says. Lansing has long since become accustomed to having people around his place…
Dyersville, Iowa, with a population of just over 4,000 souls, lies in the eastern part of the state some 30 miles from Dubuque and well off the beaten path. Of course, some people would probably consider Dubuque to be pretty far from that beaten path, too. But Dyersville is where a baseball field was carved…
In a post the other day, I mentioned that South Africa’s Blue Train is on my list of must-do train rides. Inexplicably, I failed to mention the Simplon Orient Express, also near the top of that list, and which features wonderfully restored sleeping cars from the 1920s and 1930s. What a way to travel across…
As promised, here are a few of the photos I took on my recent train trip from Washington to Los Angeles, with a 48-hour stopover in Chicago. I was in Washington to attend a meeting of the Board of Directors of NARP, the National Association of Railroad Passengers. Washington’s Union Station is a magnificent building….