Tag: Ground Travel, international comparisons, public transportation, trains, Transportation, US transport
Fix Our Trains NOW!
A friend sent me this photo recently and as many of you know, this is an issue we’re pretty passionate about. There is crap public...
Amtrak: An Open Plea to the US Government
Dear President Obama, In response to your recent town hall meeting, I have a question I’d like to pose to you as a concerned citizen....
Driving from the East Coast to the Mid-West
When it was time to depart the East Coast and North Carolina the issue of how to move forward was pressing. We wanted to continue our...
Croatia for Breakfast
Lauren really wanted to go ahead with our plan of 6 capitals in 6 days. Therefore, after our few enjoyable days in Sarajevo, we booked a...
The Longest, Most Corrupt Train in Central Asia
After sleeping in the Almaty-1 train station we boarded our first Kazakh train at 5:12am bound for Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The train arrived...
Doing the Math
The Statistics Are In 7 Cities 4 Trains 3 Countries 2 Buses 2 broken backpacks 1 Car $ 464 USD Per person (3,175 RMB)* 11,896 miles...
“Excuse me, do you have the swine flu?”
We took the 11:58pm train from Urumqi to Almaty, a 36 hour adventure across the Chinese border to Kazakhstan. Arriving early (as is my...
