"I thought it was our best trip yet!" confided Reba Nolan as she sat in my office at Monroe Travel Service. Her husband, Freddy, was a bit more circumspect with his reply, "It's hard to say. I liked ...

American author Lisa Dickey has ridden the famed Trans-Siberian Railway four times over four decades, seeing the train — and the country — transform over time. Her new book about those journeys, Bears ...