I’ve been trying to organize my photos and it’s a terrible job. Of course I haven’t filed them very well and–this is most unfortunate!–a lot of them are missing. I...

Somehow, some way, for reasons that passeth all understanding, most of the photos I’ve taken on my travels have disappeared. They were in my computer, all in their own fileshere,...

I carry a skinny reporter’s notebook when I travel, jotting things down as I go. Some result in entire posts, but most are just snapshots of something that strikes me...

I got a listicle by email this morning. That’s a recently created word referring to a newspaper or magazine article that lists ten or twelve of anything: the ten most...

Most Americans have never been to Europe and are only vaguely aware that the best way to get around that continent is by train. I explain how extensive the European...

(The following was written shortly after departing Winnipeg yesterday. I am posting this from Jasper while wrestling with a balky internet connection. Lovely day here … temperature is 75 degrees,...

It must have been the lack of motion that woke me up. I didn’t know why were were stopped—there was no other train traffic—and then I heard someone passing by...

It was raining here the other day—steadily throughout the day— and I took the opportunity to rummage through some of the photos I’ve taken on past trips. Without doubt, my...

A Canadian government report has just surfaced and it calls for an end to the subsidy of VIA Rail’s Train #1. That is, of course, The Canadian, the iconic train...

Some years back, I met a woman over lunch on Amtrak’s train #51, the westbound Cardinal. I was heading for Chicago following a NARP meeting in Washington. She had some...