Ten years ago, I was on a train traveling overnight from Berlin to Moscow. Part of the paperwork I had to have ready for the trip was a transit visa in order for me to pass through the country of Brelarus. There were several visas required for that trip and I had them all together…
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…
I’ve been finishing up some details of a European trip scheduled for mid-July—checking train schedules, deciding how long I would stay and where, and selecting hotels. Today I double-checked my passport. When I travel outside the U.S, I’m paranoid about protecting my passport. I keep it on my person at all times, tucked in…
Almost since the first railways were built in that country, the Russians have used a five-foot gauge … that is, five feet being the space between the two rails. Here in the U.S., and almost everywhere else in the rest of the world, “standard gauge” of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is used. The Russians’ idea,…