Travel guru, Rick Steves, is one of my idols. I’ve read several of his books and seen many of his videos, but there is only one specific quote I can recall. And it is so exactly right, so dead on target, and so painfully obvious that it makes me crazy to know that it is…
I’ve always found travel—especially international travel—to be stimulating, interesting, and almost addicting. But it’s too easy to relax, ignoring or forgetting what appear to be small details both in the planning and in the doing. Here’s a kind of check list I’ve compiled over the years. The first three are particularly important and can avoid…
Based on a flurry of emails received over the past several weeks, there seems to be a renewed interest in long-distance train travel. Most of the questions are about similar concerns, so here is my best advice for before and during the trip. I hope this will prove to be helpful. 1. Use a Rail-Savvy…
Most of the time when I travel, I’m going solo. Of course I’ve traveled a lot with my wife and I took my daughter on a cross country train trip when she was about 11. But over the last 20 years, with only a few exceptions, I’ve traveled on my own, often being away for…