I was exchanging texts last night with someone in Ohio who was surprised when I said that the U.S. doesn’t have a true high speed train. “What about Acela,” he...

Three years ago I was in Paris and having something to eat in one of the several street corner cafés within a two-minute walk from my hotel. It was a...

Americans don’t understand high-speed trains—where they work and where they don’t. And why. And no wonder! A very small percentage of Americans haveever seen a high-speed train, much less traveled...

      Paris, like many other cities, has a program providing the occasional use of a bicycle at no charge. As you can see from the photo I took...