If you had asked me eight or ten years ago if I would ever take the Trans-Siberian Express, I probably would have said, “Probably not.” Still, that classic ride had been on my to-do list for years. Something happened five or six years ago that changed my thinking. I guess I realized one day —…
I love staying in nice hotels. Not fancy or pretentious hotels, but spending two or three nights in a nice hotel is, for me, one of the great pleasures of life and one of the things I enjoy most about travel. I tend to do my own booking and I use hotels.com or expedia.com to…
I’ve been making plans for another visit to Europe, using a combination of American and Hawaiian Airlines miles and cash for the over-water segments, depending on which is more advantageous. The other night, I was working on my return and, according to the American Airlines web site, could get a Paris-New York flight for 30,000…
Last summer, I spent a few days visiting friends in Norway, a couple I had met in 2012 on one of the trans-Siberian trains running between Moscow and Beijing. She teaches English to young people in their final year of what we would call high school and I volunteered to come to her class and…