February, 2025
Run to the Sun: On board Amtrak's new 47-hour Chicago-Miami sleeper: My travel feature on following in the footsteps of Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon to flee the winter (if not mobsters) in Some Like It Hot. In the travel section of The Financial Times. (Here's the link.)
January, 2025
Like Clockwork: My longread (4,000 words!) on how the train-and-transit-forward transportation policy of Switzerland (pop. 9 million) can be a model for metro areas of similar sizes in North America. In The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. (Here's the link.)
December, 2024
This Is the Best Country in the World for Rail Travel: my Sunday Times (London) travel feature on using the Swiss Travel Pass to ride lesser-known trains in Switzerland. (Here's the link)
November, 2024
A City Abuzz: I rode a train to the little-visited city of Trieste for this Travel + Leisure feature on the city's historical caffès. I think this Adriatic city has the best espresso in the world, but you be the judge. (Here's the link.)
August, 2024
Pascal's Other Wager: What if the long-term solution to today's traffic jams was invented more than three centuries ago? An essay on the past and future of transit, on the Long Now Foundation's Ideas website. (Here's the link.)
March, 2024
The Future of Public Transit Isn't a Hyperloop or High-Speed Train—It's Your Smartphone: an op-ed in the Globe and Mail about Montreal's Transit App and the benefits of trip-planning apps. (Here's the link.)
January, 2024
On the Right Track: my Travel + Leisure feature on riding a historic train through the countryside of Piemonte in northern Italy (Here's the link.)
March 2023
An Edible Tour of the Swiss Canton of Vaud: a gastronomic excursion on a vintage train from Morges to Bière, in the Travel Reports section of the Wall St. Journal (Here's the link.)
August 2021
A Great North American Off-Road Bike Trip with a Father and Son: riding the P'tit Train du Nord, a rail-line-turned-bike-route, from Montreal to Mont Laurier, originally published in the Wall Street Journal. (Here's the link.)
