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Can You Actually Travel the US by Train? The Honest Guide to Amtrak
Europe has the Eurostar. Japan has the Shinkansen. China built 40,000 kilometers of high-speed rail in twenty years. And the United States has... Amtrak. Which is great — sort of. Complicated. Expensive in some ways, cheap in others. Scenic, slow, be...
Denver Union Station: From Wild West Railroad Hub to the Heart of a Modern City
Denver Union Station opened in 1881 and immediately established itself as one of the most important railroad junctions in the American West. At its peak, 80 trains a day passed through its platforms. Today, after a $500 million regeneration, it's the...
Grand Canyon: 12 Things You Need to Know Before You Go
The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide, and over a mile deep. More than six million people visit Arizona every year to see it — and a surprising number of them show up completely unprepared. Here's everything you need to know to ...
The World's Most Accessible Country for Blind and Visually Impaired Travelers: Why Japan Leads
Japan is by virtually every measure the most comprehensively designed country in the world for blind and visually impaired navigation. What makes this particularly remarkable is that the infrastructure is not a recent accessibility retrofit — it is a...