Travels – Michael Kraabel

Chasing The Camel Trophy

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The Friends We Meet, The Lives We Touch

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My travels have taken me far from home; across oceans, continents, mountain ranges and to distant lands. I am the outsider in these voyages. I leave my friends, family and love interests behind in my quest to find something inspirational, the precious diamond and experience that as a child I could only read about. I…

The Near-Death Railway of Burma (Revisited)

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This is a post from the archives of my former travel blog, UnrealTravels.com. It was published in a variety of places, including the PilotGuides website (which I did some community/forum development work for several years/decades ago). A recent article on Jalopnik about the joyless experience of American Amtrak service lead me to re-publish it. NOTE:…