Jersey Mike's Rail Adventures

New Orleans has come a long way since it was destroyed in 2005. By the time of my visit in 2009 , all three of the streetcar lines were ba...

In the final segment of my 2016 transcontinental Amtrak Long distance trip I travel from the sweatbox city of Beaumont, TX to Lafayette, LA ...

Houston generally marks the halfway point on the second day of the westbound Sunset Limited's journey to New Orleans. After the lengthy ...

In late May and June, 2016, Texas was subjected to a record setting amount of rainfall that caused the Brazos river, just west of Houston, t...

Although I did have my GoPro with me on my 2015 Cross Country trip, this would be the first year where I would get to make proper use of it....

While not the sort of disaster that took up weeks or months of headlines, East Texas received quite a bit of rain in early June 2016, drivin...

I've mentioned before that Orange, CA is closer to El Paso than Orange, TX. On the Sunset Limited one doesn't to sleep in Texas and...