6 Trains on 6 Continents ~ Connected by 44 Flights on 14 Airlines ~ PART 2
May 9, 2010, 8:19 pm
#18
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: country Western Australia
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Great report - good to hear about the buses in Argentina - looking forward to our trip in September I managed the Cuzco - Puno rail trip in Peru in the 80s and Xining-Golmud in China five or six years ago.
The Prospector should have gotten to 160+km/hr given the track improvements in the last few years. At least it did for me in the opposite direction. Which leads to the question - how did you get from Kalgoorlie back to Perth?
Happy wandering
Fred
The Prospector should have gotten to 160+km/hr given the track improvements in the last few years. At least it did for me in the opposite direction. Which leads to the question - how did you get from Kalgoorlie back to Perth?
Happy wandering
Fred
May 9, 2010, 10:41 pm
#20
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: WAS
Posts: 3,010
Thank you so much! Reading this was a wonderful way to procrastinate on studying for my finals. 
Being new here, I'm not very familiar with your situation--beyond that your TRs are held in extremely high regard. I don't mean to pry, but what sort of job/travel situation allows you to experience such travels so that you can relay them to us?
Being new here, I'm not very familiar with your situation--beyond that your TRs are held in extremely high regard. I don't mean to pry, but what sort of job/travel situation allows you to experience such travels so that you can relay them to us?
May 10, 2010, 11:56 am
#22
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Location: PHX & AGP
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WOW... I am highly impressed.. Please tell me how to book some of those bus trips in South America. My partner and I are heading down to EZE for 2 weeks and wanted to take some side trips...
May 10, 2010, 3:01 pm
#24
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Berlin, Germany; Not in Indiana any more!
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Thank you for another awesome adventure report.
I've just lost an hour or two, quite happily, reading your both halves. It was time well spent.
I've just lost an hour or two, quite happily, reading your both halves. It was time well spent.
May 10, 2010, 3:41 pm
#26
Join Date: May 2006
Location: IAD
Programs: UA 1MM *G (recovered GS), SPG Nothing, Hilton Nothing, AA Nothing
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Things I did today:
Thanks for a day well spent!!
Your comment that
is spot on. Few things in life are as relaxing and pleasurable as a transpac in F. Such flights provide a welcome respite from work, email, and phones, a great meal (usually), and plenty of rest in a seat that is also a bed. I feel lucky to have experienced this as you clearly seem to do also from your comments. Thanks for the very detailed report!!
-C
- Got up.
- Had large coffee
- Read this trip report (part 1)
- Went for a run
- Read this trip report (part 2)
Thanks for a day well spent!!
Your comment that
travel isn’t exhausting, it’s invigorating! ... Sitting in a spacious First Class Suite for a 14 hour flight to Hong Kong isn’t exhausting, it’s relaxing.
-C
May 11, 2010, 6:52 am
#28
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Dubai
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As entertaining and inspirational as ever. Didn't even wait to get home so will be light a few billable hours today! Thanks for the time and effort you put into these - always a pleasure to read.