"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 ...

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in May 2024. It was republished in February 2025 to mark the launch of CNN’s Chance Encounters podcast Marie-Claire Martineau couldn’t stop thinking ...

The first time I rode the Trans-Siberian Railway was back in 1989, before the Soviet Union collapsed. I’d been working at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, and upon leaving my job decided that instead of ...

The Seattle-based MIR Corporation is promoting its package on the Trans-Siberian Railway. With 23 years of experience, the company has on-site representatives across Russia and was twice named one of ...

Reporting from Moscow — Beyond Irkutsk, a city along the Trans-Siberian Railway, my neighbor plunked a sausage and a bottle of Cognac on the table. I dug a Route 66 shot glass from my stash of small ...