Slow Travel Magazine

Just read a description of Medium as a “twitter but for long-form texts”. Intriguing! Testing it out by creating a "Magazine".

History

I want to learn more about the history of the coast to coast railroad. Not the history of the white men who "built" it, but the people who lived and worked around it. I think I have found the book for exactly that!

Guest posting at Flight Free USA

Thanks to the marvelous world of Instagram I learnt that the Flight Free movement has arrived to the US - and now I'm guest posting for them!

Traveling by Train in the US – Practical Tips I

Learning that many people here in the US have never even been on a train, and at least maybe not on a long haul trip like this, here is a list of practicalities that might be helpful for anyone planning to travel (overnight) by train in the US.

“Sustainable Traveling”

When I went to Sweden this summer, by train and boat, the decision was a 100% based on my environmental concerns about the growing aviation industry not being a healthy part of our future. It was also 100% based on my fear of flying. And yes, I know that such a thing as 200% doesn’t …

Bravery – as in Walking the Walk

In a newsletter I received the other day, a teacher mentioned - in the middle of a whole lot of other stuff, without further ado - that they were not going to offer the study trips to the country far away anymore. Trips that they have organized for many years, and which are - have …

“Why Are You Here Then?”

"But you are still here, aren't you??" She looked at me triumphantly, and almost hatefully I thought, but maybe that was just part of the moment’s vibe in the train car we were gathered in, some eight people or so hanging out together as we were traveling through state after state on our way east. …

Stolen Land

“Who used to live here, before?” The constant question. Sometimes it’s possible to find information about it quite easily, but often only after a long scrolling through European-sounding names from the last 500 years or so. The picture above is from somewhere near Rowe, New Mexico, from the first morning of the train ride this …

Slow Travel Lessons – a Start

I've been back in LA since a couple of days now, slowly understanding where I am in the world again. Traveling slowly definitely gives you the chance to adapt to changing places in a softer way - however the shift from being in the "travel bubble" to "having arrived" is as sharp as always and …

Thoughts by the end of the trip

Thinking back on a long journey...Just boarded the last train for this summer a few hours ago! Now sitting in the panorama car on the Southwest Chief, having left Chicago and continuing west for about another two days. The routes for the trip this summer have been approximately these (practical tips for the different parts …