I don’t know how many photographs I’ve taken on my travels. Probably thousands. Maybe even hundreds of thousands! My strategy is pretty simple: if you take lots and lots of photos, you’re bound to get a few good ones. My problem is I don’t ever get the good ones organized and I don’t dump the…
Back in the mid-80s, my wife and I made the first of two trips to Hungary. We took an overnight train from Paris to Vienna then, two days later, another train for the four-hour ride from there to Budapest. This was when the Iron Curtain was still very real. When our train stopped at…
When I was a kid, it was a Sunday morning ritual in our house—and probably in most of the homes all over America—to pour over the comics that came with the big Sunday paper. The featured character in one of those strips was Dick Tracy, a police detective, and one of the tools in…
My 2011 trip to Russia and China included rail travel from London to Berlin to Moscow to St. Petersburg and back to Moscow. At that point, I joined a tour that took us by rail across Siberia to Mongolia, then down to Beijing. On my own once again there, I took the Chinese high-speed train…