One of the more interesting trips I’ve taken was a train ride from Moscow across Siberia to Mongolia, then across the border into China and south to Beijing and Shanghai. Once again the message to be heard and hopefully learned: Fundamentally, people are all the same. The first of many surprises was realizing that 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…
I’ve been fighting a bug for the past several days and it’s messed up my sleep routine, meaning I’ve spent a fair amount of time staring at the ceiling. So last night, in the wee hours, I got up, turned on the computer and spent some time going through some of the photos I took…
Airlines continue to find ways to squeeze more money out of passengers … or just to make it more difficult for us to be sure we’re getting the lowest possible fare. You are no longer able to find any American Airlines flights on Orbitz, for example. If you’re going to or through Atlanta and are…