Everywhere I travel on Amtrak, I meet people who are dedicated to avoiding planes.
Blog Posts about Travel
There Are Just Too Many of Us
We’ve all experienced the overcrowding of big cities, from which some of us fled to small towns like Santa Fe, now overwhelmed too with commercial development and part-time residents.
Lionesses
As Queen Elizabeth announced, the players had “set an example that will be an inspiration for girls and women today, and for future generations.”
Volare
After graduating from college and becoming engaged with a ring that was too expensive, I was spending a month of a sort of pre-honeymoon with the man I was going to marry in the fall.
The Handmade House
I imagine the success of the Beach House was largely due to the energy of these women: Grandma on the rooftop, her three daughters, and their many daughters and nieces who enjoyed the house for three generations.
Sorrow-Acre
We pay the price for our many forms of immaturity—but I prefer that to what seems to be the ironclad maturity of the well-cared-for Danes.
Her Pact With the Devil
The habit of forming pacts to shape her chosen life began when Karen Blixen was standing on a granite boulder at Folehave with her younger brother Thomas, then fourteen.
No Phone No Gun
The Danes are a practical people living within the limits of a limited world.
Murder in Mississippi
I know what to expect of Rockwell’s art, or I thought I did: homey sentimental depictions of an America that no longer exists and perhaps never did.
Staying Put
I still don’t want to go anywhere but if I go I want it to be on a train.