Ahh, Dear Reader. It is mid-Summer, your Blogger and the Lady have done absolutely no non-work travel since Peru in March, and we are getting antsy. Fortunately we are able to do some armchair (or if we’re being honest, office chair) travelling via the old interwebs. WordPress has been helpful in this regard (I particularly enjoy the missives from waterfallsandcaribous and the Ego Tripper (who wins the “best travel handle” name award)), but as with most things, when the New York Times bothers to pull out all the stops it does a hell of a job.
This article has inspired me to create a new category of posts – Wish List posts with links to places or trips that stike your Blogger’s fancy. This one got me because it combines several of my favorite things – train trips, booze, a truly random collection of people thrown together (with booze), and being way the hell away from civilization. I’ve long wanted to d a Trans-Siberian Railway trip, but had never heard of the BAM before reading this and it sounds amazing – sort of the pre-tourist version of the Trans-Siberian, and something that has to be done. So tell me, what must make trips do you have on your list, Dear Reader?
About Our Trip... 