I’ve mentioned here on a few occasions that I prefer traveling by myself. My wife and I have traveled together quite a bit, but now we’re retired and she has...

NOTE: In addition to my indispensable notebooks, for many years I also took a scanner on my rail ventures. The scanner searches for and finds the radio frequencies used by...

Based on a flurry of emails received over the past several weeks, there seems to be a renewed interest in long-distance train travel. Most  of the questions are about similar...

Q:  I’m getting my second vaccine shot in ten days. Will I be able to travel safely then? (Wondering about“vaccine shot” . . . Is that a redundancy?) A:  As...