All Aboard » TGV Est Premiére

—All Aboard! is written by Jay Brunhouse It is through flat, green, French countryside surrounded by fields of grain that my TGV train really flexed its muscles. Powering ahead, I didn’t feel any curves, and when I encountered slightly rolling hills, raw embankments rose high above my window. The level ride over the new Est européene [...]

Antarctica — unimaginable beauty

by Debi Shank, ITN After a full day at sea, I woke up, peered through the window of my cabin and had my first sighting of Antarctica. The months of anticipation were over as we sailed past Deception Island and began our 5-day voyage through the South Shetland Islands and down the Antarctic Peninsula. The first distinct [...]