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They gain ad revenue and lose some repeat business. I guess the extra revenue is worth it to them. It would irritate me. I have ridden buses with wraps and it is like a really dirty window.

I do not believe she ever flew on a Boeing 747, but my Aunt Judi worked for Boeing's HR department from 1965 to around 1972. She had the extreme good fortune to be in a position to give a couple thousand people notice that they were being fired when the Boeing gamble on the 747 was still not...

How would you compare the A380 to the 787 on the amount of noise? I flew Qatar Air on an A380 and it was about the same as a 787, maybe a bit quieter. Especially on takeoff the A380 was a subdued but powerful ride. I like the 787 better than most widebody jets for its comfort level, but the A380...

That would be very cool! I wish United still flew the 747. I would have a chance for an upgrade with them. I guess Lufthansa is Star Alliance so I still have a shot. I sat last night and tried to figure out what it was worth to me to fly Polaris again, this time on a trans-Atlantic 747. I came...

I am going to be flying home to the States in a month or two and I will probably go out of my way to take a Lufthansa flight back to NY, just so I can ride in a 747-8. I flew in an EVA Air combi back in 1995 or 1998 and by some fluke I was seated in 2A or 3A. So I could actually see down the...

Utah built wildlife overpasses and covered them with gravel and dead tree trunks to make it look more natural. The animals took to it fairly quickly. Not sure if it reduced the traffic deaths of migratory animals much, but it can not hurt...

I can almost understand the impatience if you are looking at a 8,000 foot long freight train moving 10 mph out West, but east coast passenger trains make you wait less than a minute...

Oh.... Bother. I assumed. LOL! I bought a small pocket knife for my ex-GF a couple years ago and forgot to put it in my checked bag. So into the trash it went at the TSA check. Grrr... My error though, both then and now. On edit: In my defense, I seem to attract attentive security people at...

I have been trying to travel only by ships or buses because I bought a nice, very cheap Swiss Army knife in Athens and do not want to either give it away or check my luggage on a flight again. But I flew from Santorini to Crete because the ferries were inop due to weather and I had to pay €40...

I have a friend that lived in Mexico for years. Her husband was with the World Bank and they knew people. When the PRI got voted out she went to an Alliance for Change party where at one point the ladies sat in one room and the men in another. She was seated with 3 of her friends and 2 women she...

I agree that Americans do not seem to want to board a train quickly which is odd. If you use the NY or DC metro, the crowd generally stands to the side of the doors to allow people off then board relatively fast. Amtrak does not seem to have that same mindset. Is it a generational thing? A lack...

The Europeans, Canada, the US, Australia and New Zealand did set the system up for the convenience of their own citizens. There is no doubt of that. I just wish the system could have expanded to include more countries instead of moving to stricter controls. 9-11 among other things put paid to...

Bob, I am jealous. I never got to fly Pan Am and that ticket type would have been PERFECT! I started traveling by air in the late 1980's so I missed the Golden Age of air travel. DA, I will have to check for that booking service in the future. I used RyanAir as my exit ticket from Greece and it...

I have personal experience of just how much more complex the rules of international travel have become over the past several years. I have made 4 RTW trips (1994, 1998, 2002 and 2004) and two extended trips in SE Asia in 2014 and 2018, and each of them was done by my buying a one way ticket...

Wow. Just wow. I saw it from the outside as my sleeper train rolled by last month and it looked huge. Inside looks both huge and modern. Nicely done, Thailand!

Great shot of one of my favorite train stations!

Good luck with your travels! I hope this trip works perfectly for you all!

That sleeper looks a lot like the new Russian train I saw being touted last year. I remember that the marketing material had the Russian girl reaching up like she was going to get into the top bunk wearing a mini skirt and killer high heels. It was a still photo not a video...

It may look similar to a Venture, but I believe it was a Chinese design and build. I am not knowledgeable enough about trainsets to say anything other than repeating what ManInSeat61 says.

Good point. It does remind me of the arched roof civic centers that were commonly built in the States from 1920 (?) on. But bigger than most. Google maps has the arched roof line at just over 140 meters long. Way back in the day I used to study in the Library of Congress Reading Room and they...