Amtrak

While the USA is not known for having a great public transportation system now, it did in the pre-automobile age, when the trains stopped almost everywhere. Thankfully much of that system survived in the parts of the country that have been populated the longest, so you can still travel the USA’s east coast by train, …

Want to take an epic road trip in the USA, but you don’t own a car? It’s not an easy goal, but it can be done. For a whole lot of reasons, the United States of America has a reputation for being a pain in the butt for independent travelers. On many other continents you …

With flying getting more unpleasant every year—especially for domestic flights—it makes a lot of sense to exhaust all your alternatives. When you’re trying to connect to get from where you live to where you are going, the obvious choice isn’t always the best one. I figured this out quickly when I first became a world …