You’re rolling along, enjoying the scenery passing by outside your roomette and suddenly you’re crossing a river. Sometimes the train slows to cross. Sometimes the speed doesn’t lessen, almost as if the train hasn’t noticed there’s a river alongside us. I always notice. Here are a few shots of rivers taken from moving trains. For…
It’s amazing how much enjoyment I get from going through the photographs I have taken on my travels over the years. I thought I would share a few over the next few posts. These are from my three-night crossing of the Australian continent, from Sydney on the Pacific Ocean to Perth on the Indian Ocean,…
excursion train,
The view from my room on the 16th floor of the LAX Hilton was spectacular, but sobering. For almost twenty minutes, I watched planes landing non-stop—one every 90 seconds. And that was just one runway. Planes were taking off from another runway at the same rate–one every 90 seconds. It’s the same 400 miles…