I came across the following quotation from Mark Twain the other day: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be...
I’ve been struck recently by the growing number of news stories about cities and towns in various parts of the country that are agitating for more or better or even...
The people who constantly generate anti-Amtrak editorials and op-ed pieces in the media drive me crazy … especially when they go after Amtrak’s long-distance trains. In most cases, they either...
I think the one train ride I remember as being the most spectacular was the Bernina Express, which we took from Tirano in Northern Italy across the Alps to the...