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The Long and Winding Road of SkodaTruck Drivers | Trans-Siberian railway With a length of 9,289 kilometres (5,772 miles) from Moscow to Vladivostok, it is the longest railway line in the world | |
The Retired Whale Hunters of Kalmukia | That one must be full of wonder. They say India is the place where your senses explode. Another very long trip would be Lisbon-Paris and then Paris-Moscow. My favourite travel book is about train travel. Paul Theroux's The Great Railway Bazaar (1975). | |
The Airborne Flock of Migrating Geese | Hmmmm...... I didn't realize that The-Law resided here. Not that we're guilty of anything! The Postman and The Post Master are alive and well! I can attest to that!! SkodaTruck Drivers, Sidney Reilly, The 21 Hot Air Balloonists, and Drifter | |
The Rolling Stone of Stone Circle Aviators | That would be an interesting trip, second train trip on my bucket list. All because of a little book called. | |
The Floating Fortresses of The 21 Hot Air Balloonists | There are several actually, if you're willing to deal with Amtrak Migrating Geese, Stone Circle Aviators, Kalmukia, Sidney Reilly, and 1 otherDrifter | |
The Airborne Flock of Migrating Geese | I yearly ride the train in Strasburg, Pa. (not sure I spelled it right) It's an actual steam engine from circa 1900 with the actual cars. They have coaches, a dining car and a parlor car. All have been restored. It goes slowly and you get a feel of what is was like before planes. Scenery is great--lots of greenery and Amish farms. It only goes a few miles, then the engine detaches, goes up a different track, and reattaches to the rear and pulls the train back along the same track. I'm beginning to feel like Sheldon Cooper. | |
The Long Arm of The-Law | I didn't see eye to eye politically with my old region so moved here for a quieter life Migrating Geese, Stone Circle Aviators, Sidney Reilly, and Drifter | |
The Rolling Stone of Stone Circle Aviators | Small world. I took that trip while i was visiting Hersey. | |
The Airborne Flock of Migrating Geese | The train museum is really something. Did you also see the toy train museum? I own a set of Lionel trains circa late '50's. I'm not a collector; they were in the family. Hershey park is also fun. Really well kept and clean. Oldest steel roller coaster in the USA, with one loop--archaic by today's coasters, but kept for nostalgia. I have a real fear of heights, but was forced to ride it to take one of the kids on it. I counted 16 seconds to the beginning of the ride to the completion of the loop. Instead of the car climbing up for the loop--that slow ascent always freaked me out-- you were on a platform to enter the car and thus the incline was already there, and you dropped for the loop. I closed my eyes and there I went. Stone Circle Aviators, Sidney Reilly, and Drifter | |
The Retired Whale Hunters of Kalmukia | Life - the way Life flows- is like a train running one way, never to go back. We don't choose to hop on and we're not sure when we have to hop off...but we all do, some time or another. | |
The Floating Fortresses of The 21 Hot Air Balloonists | This brings back memories, I used to go on the strasburg railroad with my grandparents when I was a little kid. We just gotta make sure we dont go off on the wrong track | |
Drifter | I have fond memories of visiting a roller coaster park called “Cedar Point” in Ohio. Some very impressive roller coasters are there. One of the coasters — The Top Thrill Dragster — was the tallest in the world for some time, but was later beaten in height. | |
The Rolling Stone of Stone Circle Aviators | Between the train ride and snapping pictures in the museum i never made it to the toy train museum. The other people i was traveling with did not have a "Sheldon' mentality. My visit was cut way too short. Never made it to Hershey park roller coaster. We as a group did the Hershey chocolate factory tour. I was disappointed to hear at the end of the tour most of the chocolate was now produced in Mexico. :P | |
The Retired Whale Hunters of Kalmukia | Sometimes I feel I was born in the wrong continent. | |
The Rolling Stone of Stone Circle Aviators | There is no wrong continent to be born in. Just so happens that most of the vocal travelers who are posting are from the America's at the moment. My first and only high-speed train ride was Lisbon to Porto. Totally amazing smooth ride even though i was sitting backwards to the forward motion.Traveling through the country side that is centuries old was captivating. North America does not have an intercontinental high speed train, though Amtrak Acela Express has a few high-speed trains. | |
The Airborne Flock of Migrating Geese | I'm not sure where all our members are from. I do know that when we organized our home region, many years ago, most were not Americans, and thus the consensus was that we would spell "travelling" and not "traveling." Great conversation. I wish the natives would have joined in more. But any way, we need to be moving along. | |
The Endless Waddling of Ducks Looking For Grapes | Goodbye! waddles away | |
Drifter | Fair well! | |
The Retired Whale Hunters of Kalmukia | Bye | |
The Rolling Stone of Stone Circle Aviators | Time to roll on, Adios. | |
The Floating Fortresses of The 21 Hot Air Balloonists | As Stone Circle said, there is no wrong continent, my friend. Americans are jealous of Europe's rail network. We have very few options, none high speed, and many cities have no service at all. With air travel and highways of the mid-1900s, the USA's rail network had pretty much died by the 70s. | |
The Friendly Backpacker of The Eternal Sightseer | Thanks for having us! See you around! | |
The Republic of ChicosLocos | The 7 day weather forecast summary for Vladivostok: The next 7 day outlook for Vladivostok shows the average daytime maximum temperature will be around 13°C, with a high for the week of 15°C expected on the afternoon of Monday 3rd. The average minimum temperature will be 6°C, dipping to its lowest on the morning of Saturday 1st at 4°C. Expect the next week to have mixed overhead conditions with some days dry and some seeing a significant amount of rain. Current predictions suggest Wednesday will have the most precipitation with an accumulation of around 20.0mm. On the whole winds are likely to be moderate. | |
The Republic of ChicosLocos | For Vladivostok in the coming week The average daytime maximum temperature will be around 11°C, with a high for the week of 17°C expected on the evening of Saturday 15th. The average minimum temperature will be 7°C, dipping to its lowest on the morning of Wednesday 12th at 5°C. Expect the week ahead to have some days seeing a little precipitation and some days with rain. Predictions are Friday will have the most precipitation with an accumulation of around 16.0mm. On the whole winds are likely to be moderate. | |
The Republic of ChicosLocos | The forecast for Vladivostok in the coming week Predicting the average daytime maximum temperature will be around 18°C, with a high for the week of 21°C expected on the afternoon of Friday 21st. The mean minimum temperature will be 10°C, dipping to its lowest on the morning of Friday 21st at 7°C. The week will have mostly dry days although Sunday 16th and Wednesday 19th are likely to see a little rain. It looks like Sunday 21st will have the most precipitation with an accumulation of around 1.0mm. On the whole winds are likely to be moderate. |