PORTUGAL — Some of us don't travel the world looking for bridges to jump from; it only works out that way. Two years ago, I went off the 24-meter-high Stari

Some places enable you to mix history and reckless recreation. Mostar, Bosnia, is one of them. I was in Bosnia in October for a couple reasons. One was the excess

Fifteen years later, I was back in Detroit. On my first, long-ago trip, two weeks before 9/11, I left my belongings in an airport locker — airport lockers, remember them?

As December of another year squandered in the East loomed, the time came to pursue "rare miles" in a hyper-congested urban corridor. Two rail routes exist between DC and Baltimore.

In another life I had time to ride freight trains around the West, through thousands of miles of scenery that only freight crews and hoboes had seen ever since

Ernest Hemingway hopping a freight train between boxcars to get to Walloon Lake in  1916. (Wikipedia Commons) After 17 months — too long a time — I was back sticking

Not many tourists go sightseeing in Camden these days. I did on New Year's Day, in pursuit of a public library that the city threw away in 1986. For years I

It had been six years since my last long Western ride. Back in 2006, I'd ridden Elko-Salt Lake City and Ogden-Elko, first along the southern shore of the Great

This was one of the fastest, smoothest catch-outs ever. I dropped off my rental car at the Citgo station in downtown Cumberland, Md., and climbed aboard a grainer a few