This is Part 2 of my train trip across the USA, and this feature was published in the June 2018 edition of Western Australia’s seniors’ newspaper Have-A-Go News. This time I travel from Denver, Colorado to New York, the final leg of my train trip across the USA. Starting in Denver, a city I really…
In 2017 I enjoyed making a train trip across the United States on Amtrak. I travelled from San Francisco to New York, via Washington D.C. and had a fabulous time. Crossing a country overland really lets you get to know both the people and the place, as on any train trip you do get to…
The Shinkansen, Japan’s super-speedy bullet trains are already a pretty fast and efficient way to get around Japan, as they whisk travellers from the country’s cosmopolitan urban centres to its more traditional rural locales. But what if you want to experience a bit of authentic Japanese culture while you’re zipping across Japan at 200 miles…