For those of you that have been following along with my travels for a few years, you might remember that I engaged in a bit of train craziness/fun back in September of 2011 — going from Lisbon to Saigon, all on trains, all in 30 days — along with my […]
Who Else Likes “Challenge Travel??” I have been talking about this topic for months now, but finally… FINALLY, the day has come where I can make the announcement I have been waiting on. Some of you hopefully followed along last year when I came up with the idea of the Ultimate […]
It has taken a few months to recover from the Ultimate Train Challenge. The whole journey was well and truly magnificent, but I had little idea how much almost thirty straight days on trains, over almost 15,000 miles, would take out of me. For the first time since a few […]
This time through China, I was in an even bigger rush than I was during my RTW trip back in 2009-10. Then, I managed to stay in Beijing, a city I surprisingly like, for almost a full week. This time, since we were in a bit of a rush […]
I just simply don’t understand Monaco. It is one of the cities in the world, like Beirut or Hong Kong that just sort of mystifies me. It is a city of immense wealth of course. It boasts the highest Gross Domestic Product per capita of any country in the world, […]
One of the things that I love about China is the slightly off English that you see in signs and hear from people. “Clinglish” or “Changlish” or whatever one calls it (similar to Spanglish, which was supposedly an actually good Adam Sandler movie, though I’ll never know), China was […]
I wanted to post this first on the Ultimate Train Challenge website, so I did — on this video post of the Trans-Manchurian — but I figured I would put it up over here also. It is my first video effort. More of the story on the link through… and […]
Six days and about 150 or so hours on trains tends to give you enough time to get bored to do some good thinking about the meaning of life. Or enough time to delve into your spare hard drive’s video collection and become a vegetable. I did a little more […]
We are on the six day and approximately 150 hour train ride from Moscow to Bejing as you read this. There is a possibility that Jeannie and Nora have already smothered me for my snoring. If so, I wish this, my last post, to officially beg for their forgiveness […]
Well, it is September 15th, and I have made it to Moscow. This will not come as a shock to any of you that read this site, but I am here a day early, because I didn’t pay any attention to the various emails from Jeannie, the Nomadic Chick […]
There are two parts of the Ultimate Train Challenge and although all three of us, me, Nora and Jeannie, aren’t being ultra competitive about any of this… I do know we all want some form of bragging rights at the end of it all. Given that we have a different […]
During the month of September, as I hope most of you that follow along with this website know, I will be joining Jeannie the Nomadic Chick and Nora the Professional Hobo on the Ultimate Train Challenge. One month. Lisbon, Portugal to Saigon, Vietnam. All by trains, mostly by Eurail.com and […]
