Prisoner of Hopes

Category: trains

  • Pioneer Park: Travel Goals Alaska

    Pioneer Park: Travel Goals Alaska

    After a quick flight from Dawson City to Fairbanks Alaska, we find our hotel room isn’t quite ready. So we hop on the free shuttle and head to Pioneer Park. It is as good a place as any to spend an afternoon in Fairbanks. We’ve been here before and know that we will have options…

  • White Pass Rail: Travel Goals Alaska/Canada

    White Pass Rail: Travel Goals Alaska/Canada

    Today we are leaving Skagway so we are up early. We grab breakfast at the local coffee shop and head to catch the transport to the White Pass Railway. I am excited about the trip over the White Pass. This is the way that hundreds of Gold Rush miners walked with their supplies. Canada required prospectors…

  • Bullet Train: Travel Goals Japan

    Bullet Train: Travel Goals Japan

    I am riding a bullet train today. There is one leaving the station every few minutes. I can arrive and walk to the platform with absolutely no fuss. I am still in shock that for a small fee I will be in a city across the country in just a few hours. With a Japan…

  • Wind Power: Rural Road Trips Texas

    Wind Power: Rural Road Trips Texas

    Today we find ourselves at a windmill museum. Why? You ask. That is a good question that we are still asking ourselves. The short answer is that we are on a road trip and find ourselves in the middle of Texas with time to kill. Our RV park has no amenities and the ambience at…

  • Queen of the Desert: Rural Road Trips Arizona

    Queen of the Desert: Rural Road Trips Arizona

    Today we head to Bisbee, Arizona. It is a small town built on a legacy of copper. The copper queen mine sits just at the edge of town, a reminder of a booming past. The present condition of Bisbee is the opposite of booming. It has seen better days. Still there are antique shops and…

  • Stroll Through The Park: Travel Goals Japan

    Stroll Through The Park: Travel Goals Japan

    A remembrance of the day that every museum and cultural attract in Tokyo is closed. We make our own fun.

  • Meiji Morning: Travel Goals Japan

    Meiji Morning: Travel Goals Japan

    This morning I wake up with the sun. It is a mystery to me how my internal clock always knows sunrise. Even on the other side of the globe, I’m up at the first hint of dawn. Last night we arrived in Tokyo after nineteen hours of travel. Unsurprisingly, the boys are still fast asleep.…

  • Sleepy Little Town: Travel Goals Norway

    Sleepy Little Town: Travel Goals Norway

    When the Olympics were held in Lillehammer, pundits called it a sleepy little town in Norway. I can’t say if it is “sleepy”. I can say I find it charming. The train trip from Oslo follows endless lakes. This early in the Spring, they are mostly frozen, making the scenery a magical land of sun,…

  • Olympic Spirit: Travel Goals Norway

    Olympic Spirit: Travel Goals Norway

    Daa. Daa. Da dah da dah dah. Bum bum ba bum. bum bum ba badda bum bum bum. Sorry the Olympic fanfare horns are trumpeting in my head and I have to get it out. Excite builds as we approach the Lillehammer Olympic museum. In my head, I see Nancy Kerrigan, Tonya Harding and Oksana…

  • All Aboard to Bergen: Travel Goals Norway

    All Aboard to Bergen: Travel Goals Norway

    After my breakfast of brown cheese (I am developing a taste for the stuff) and whole grain bread washed down with dark coffee, we pack up and head downstairs to the train station. As it turned out, the Comfort Hotel Grand Central was an excellent location to spend a few days while we transitioned to…