I came across the following quotation from Mark Twain the other day: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be...
Amtrak wants to replace the high-speed equipment – the Acela trainsets – now operating on the Northeast Corridor between Washington and Boston via New York City. The first Acelas began...
In the summer of 2011, I spent just over a month on an extended rail journey that included London, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Moscow, several cities in Siberia and Mongolia, Beijing...
My niece, Keri, is here visiting for the weekend. She’s eleven and cute and smart and … Well, you know, a pretty typical modern day kid. Except she’s been to...