I’m often asked which is my favorite destination or which trip do I remember most or some version of that. Because I travel almost exclusively by train, my answer is...
NEWS ITEM: “Trump Budget Zeros Out Amtrak Support.” Uh-oh . . . if we’re looking for an example of how the loss of passenger train service can impact a...
VIA Rail Canada runs a train some 1100 miles due north from Winnipeg to the town of Churchill, on the shores of Hudson Bay. As the weather turns cold—along about...
Six years ago, I took VIA Rail’s wonderful trans-continental train, The Canadian, and got off in Winnipeg. Two days later—it was about the third week of October—I boarded Train 693,...
I was exchanging emails the other day with a friend and the subject was unforgettable travel experiences. Whether we travel a lot and visit exotic destinations, or less often and...
This morning I drove out to the Churchill Northern Studies Center, some 20 kilometers out of town, where I had an appointment to meet with Michael Goodyear, executive director of...
The big attraction Churchill holds for visitors, of course, is the polar bears. For a couple of months, beginning sometime in October, the town is full of people from all...
To use an apt Hawaiian-pidgin expression, it’s freeze-ass cold in Churchill on my second day, with temperatures in the 20s and a vicious wind blowing in off of Hudson Bay....
Was the visit to Churchill, Manitoba, worth a full week, including a total of four nights on the train, and a pretty fair chunk of change? Absolutely! It was an...