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Sep 19, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
After spending the past month in Germany I'm heading east for a few days.
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Image The Kyiv Metro gates accept contactless credit/debit cards, including international ones.
Aug 8, 2022 • 117 tweets • 39 min read
Over the next few days I'll be traveling from Boston to NYC and hopefully onward to Philadelphia and DC, entirely by local transit bus. Bus 1: MBTA 39 Boston Copley Square to Forest Hills Station, fare $1.70 (Charliecard) mbta.com/schedules/39/l… Image
Jun 5, 2022 • 114 tweets • 39 min read
Since people apparently enjoyed my livetweets of my pre-pandemic trip from Antarctica to Boston without flying (), over the next couple weeks I'll be livetweeting a no-flying journey from the EU's easternmost capital to its westernmost. ImageImageImage First step is to cross into Northern Cyprus at Ledra Street, walk thru the north part of Nicosia's old city to Kyrenia Gate, & catch a minibus to Girne (Kyrenia) for 30 TL. (The Republic of Cyprus is in the Eurozone but the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus uses Turkish Lira.) ImageImage
Dec 3, 2021 • 63 tweets • 33 min read
In 1917 it was possible to travel almost the entire way from Boston to Chicago by interurban electric trolleys, with just two short gaps totalling less than 40 miles out of the 1200+-mile journey. google.com/maps/d/viewer?… Total fare $21.04 ($425 in 2020 $). Total travel time 53.5 hours plus transfer & gap-crossing time; the overall journey would take about 4 days if the gaps were crossed by steam train or 5 if they were crossed on foot. (The fastest steam trains took 20.5 hours & cost around $50.)
Dec 2, 2020 • 24 tweets • 11 min read
In 1835 it became possible for the first time to travel the length of the Northeast Corridor, from Boston to DC, by rail & regularly-scheduled steamboat (previously slow horsedrawn stagecoaches were required). The route, however, was almost entirely different from today. Image The northernmost segment, from Boston to Providence, opened in July 1835, & is the the only part of the 1835 route that is still mostly part of the Northeast Corridor. It includes what is today the fastest segment of the corridor (near Mansfield) & the 615ft stone Canton Viaduct. ImageImage
Jan 18, 2020 • 340 tweets • >60 min read
Inspired by @milesintransit1 live-tweeting his NYC-LA Greyhound trip , I will be attempting to live-tweet my trip from Ushuaia (and Antarctica) to Boston without flying. In fact I've already been travelling north for over 800 miles, since reaching my furthest point south at Port Charcot, Booth Island, Antarctica on January 13.