rides

While it’s ridiculously busy at rush hour and way too hot in the summer, the Tube is an essential part of life in London.As a local, I sometimes use the public transit system — formally called the London Underground —more than four or five times on some days, as it’s…

From taking a bullet train in Japan to backpacking around Europe, I’ve visited 43 countries so far, and I try to travel by rail whenever possible.However, when I reviewed the states I’ve visited in the US over the years, I found that I almost always flew to get from point…

As a native of Washington, DC, I’ll never forget looking out the window of an Amtrak train to take in the desert scenes of the American Southwest. The view looked just like the cowboy movies I loved as a kid.On other rides, I took in the endless open skies around…