Ten Reasons I Love Long Train Trips
Yes, I’m a bit odd. When planning a trip, most people usually search the cheap airfare websites. I grab a map, though. My first impulse is … Continue reading Ten Reasons I Love Long Train Trips
Category: Rails
Crossing Borders 3: Seven Time Zones, No Airplanes
Third in a three-part series of border crossing adventures Having crossed the Atlantic four times, most memorably in 2012 with a new passport, I have a … Continue reading Crossing Borders 3: Seven Time Zones, No Airplanes
Crossing Borders 2: From Russia with Love
Second in a three-part series entitled “Crossing Borders” I recently wrote about a three-day train journey from Kazakhstan to Russia. While getting there was half the … Continue reading Crossing Borders 2: From Russia with Love
The Day I Jumped Off a Moving Train
“I love trains. I don’t even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but they’re not.” … Continue reading The Day I Jumped Off a Moving Train
Crossing Borders 1: Trainbound in Petropavl
“Ever since childhood, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it,” writes Paul Theroux in The Great Railway Bazaar. … Continue reading Crossing Borders 1: Trainbound in Petropavl
Making Tracks Across Turkey: The East Express to Kars
“A railway here in Asia – in the dreamy realm of the Orient – in the fabled land of the Arabian Nights – is a strange … Continue reading Making Tracks Across Turkey: The East Express to Kars
Westbound on the Empire Builder
As a child I used to sit transfixed as trains rumbled past my grandmother’s little house in Decatur, Georgia. I never tired of watching the crossing … Continue reading Westbound on the Empire Builder
