I am patting myself on the back for that clever title. The trains here really do jet, they go super fast! Most of the time… Train travel is wonderful, you know, as travel goes. Obviously it would be much more convenient to just teleport (although I had a conversation with my friends about teleportation, and we decided that if it existed, there would probably be teleportation stations like train stations or airports and it would end up being kind of sucky too), but it’s less aggravating than airports and planes. [...]

Transportation is something most of us use every day, but notice only when it bothers us or stops working correctly. Every week I take the subway to campus and back and take a local train to visit nearby relatives, but I rarely stop to think about how this wouldn’t be possible at all in Minneapolis because of the lack of reliable rail service and infrastructure. On the occasions that I do stop to think about the transportation I use every day I realize how different the transportation systems in the [...]

It was no shock to anyone that Emily had neglected her blog for well over a month.  Always jumping around…quite like a flea.  And in her defense, quite like a flea with a pedigree pup on her plate; too enthralled with wandering through the thicket of fine hair, too busy burrowing beneath the scales of skin to sip on sweet nectar, and often too frazzled by the jarring movements of her host to sit back with pen and paper and reflect…and more often than not, this flea thought…”I am just [...]

This weekend I went to Marrakech, the “Capital of Tourism of Morocco” as one of my Moroccan friends calls it, and had quite the interesting time. I took a 2:30 am train from Fez on Saturday to get to Marrakech, as I didn’t want to miss any of my class. I much prefer having 7 hours to sleep on the train and get to Marrakech in the morning. Not much a fan of sitting through 7 hours without air conditioning, I bought a first-class ticket this time. Even though it [...]