Welcome back! You seem to like this blog. Why not share your favorite articles with your friends on Facebook and/or give it a Stumble? Thanks! If you’re reading this blog, then it’s no secret to you that I love to travel. I love seeing new places, meeting new people. I love researching my trips ahead [...]
Posts under ‘Trains’
Solo Travel with Danube Express Journeys
Ever since I first read Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, I’ve thought a long train journey–the kind that takes several days, where you get your own sleeper compartment and mingle with intriguing strangers in a restaurant or observation car–would be very romantic. Sans the murder, of course. I tried train travel once, many [...]
Advice to Travel Companies
I have been keeping a pretty close eye on weather-related travel news this week as I prepare to head to New Orleans on Friday, and obviously, the news this week has been misery heaped upon misery for travelers delayed by perpetual storms across the country. Obviously, there’s not much anyone can do when Mother Nature [...]
More ideas for solo travelers on a budget
Jane Engle wrote this article in the L.A. Times travel section recently offering five suggestions on ways solos can travel within a budget. It’s all good advice, some of which I’ve covered here before. Although, having taken a train once to Delaware, I can tell you if you want to “snooze in your seat”, I [...]
7/23/08 News Roundup….
There’s a very interesting interview in the 7/20/08 Newsweek with the CEO of Amtrak, Alex Kummant, talking about the expansion of rail service in the U.S. as a result of high oil prices. I have long been a proponent of expanding the rail infrastructure in this country and increasing rail service in high-traffic corridors in [...]
