I’ve taken the bus across some strange stretches of this country. When I went from Chicago to Louisville, I opted not to fly and spent 7 hours on a Greyhound through Indiana. I’ve even crossed international borders, like when I…
I don’t pack much for the train. After dozens of Amtrak rides, including overnights in coach and a few in a roomette, my list has gotten shorter, not longer. I know what I use and what just adds weight to…
I love living in New York City, and one of the biggest reasons is that it is easy to live here without a car. I would rather read a book on the train than sit in traffic, and I get around on foot, on transit, and on a bike.
But, the hardest part of car-free life here getting to real nature. I mean real trails, forests, and the feeling of being a part of the vast ecosystem of other living things.
For a long time I just did without it, and I think my mental health paid for it. Over the past year I went looking for the nature you can reach inside the five boroughs on a single subway swipe, and I have now been to seven of these places myself.
I’ve taken the train up to Cold Spring twice now, both times without a car, and both times I came home thinking the same thing. This is one of the easiest nature days you can have if you live in…
There’s a certain mythology around the old Chinatown buses among longtime New Yorkers. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, you could walk to a curbside in lower Manhattan, hand someone cash, and be in Boston for $10. Companies like…
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This is the article for those looking at the price of a roomette and deciding if they’ll be able to ride it out in Coach instead. (Because that’s me.) Look, I love taking the roomettes, but the past couple of…