A bucket list trip

[RonanTheBarbarian]

Well, have you an online email account like gmail or hotmail or yahoo?

If you have just copy and paste Colmx's itinerary into an email and email it toyourself.

A lot of people dont realise that you can email to yourself in these email accounts...so for instance, if your email account was a yahoo account like, say, joe552@yahoo.ie, you could just enter joe552@yahoo.ie in the "too" box and paste what you want in, and hit send.

It will pop up in your inbox and then you can save it to a folder in your email account.

If you dont know about email folders , just google "creating a folder in yahoo", or hotmail, or whatever

[joe552]

Sorry Ronan, I only half read your post. I've now copied and pasted colmx's itinerary into a folder. I know, sometimes it's like dealing with a child. Although I imagine most children are more tech savvy than I am.

[jfs]

Joe, since you've expressed a fondness for Vancouver BC, and you like the idea of train rides...I suggest The Rocky Mountaineer Train
from Vancouver to Banff.
https://www.canadianrockiestrains.co...ouver-to-banff

[RonanTheBarbarian]

as for time:
3 days Singapore
1 day train to Melaka
3 days Melaka
1 day Malaka to KL
3 days KL
1 day train to Butterworth
3 days in penang
1 day train to Surat Thai
(optional 3 day stopover in Langkawi)
(Optional 2 day stopover in Hat Yai)
4 days in Samui/Phuket
(Optional 3 days stopover in Krabi)
1 day train to Bkk
3 days in Bkk
1 day Train to Chiang mai
3 days in CM

And, by the way, to get back the main point of the thread, that sounds like a brilliant itinerary colmx!

I would be tempted to do it if I came in to a bit of money and could take four or six weeks off (or maybe when i get my gratuity, if I live that long).

By the time I get my gratuity, I suspect that the Chinese Rail company will have a line that will whisk you from Luang Prabang to Bangkok in about four hours, which will be efficient, but take the romance out of it.

The big advantage of your itinerary compared to doing the rails from St. Louis to LA, or the Trans-Siberian railway, is that there would be not any very long (two or three day) segments that would be pretty samey and monotonous, watching thousands of miles of prairie or Siberian forest pass along..

[joe552]

Thanks, jfs, that is indeed a train journey I want to make some day. But Canada would feel a bit too familiar.


colmx's suggestion is the ideal trip - and now I don't have to think about a route. It's just filling in the details;

[a447]

I'm a rev-head - I love cars and race them from time to time as a hobby.

So my bucket list would be :

A. Hire a car for some trackwork at the Nurburgring in Germany.

B. Fly to Los Angeles, hire a Corvette and travel Route 66 across America to Chicago.

I'd travel with one of my friends who is also into cars and sometimes joins me on the track.

The problem is time because although we are both retired, we are quite busy and have different commitments.

But one of these days we'll definitely do it.

[Dalewood]

Take the train Denver to San Francisco (do it westbound--you will still get the great scenery if the train is delayed). Then San Francisco to Vancouver. Then Vancouver to Edmonton. If funds permit, you can start in Chicago and end in Toronto. Do it as close to June 21st as possible to get maximum daylight.

[christianpfc]

I'm interested in architecture, especially art nouveau, some day I want to go to Barcelona and Brussels.

[Yraen]

or a train journey from somewhere like St. Louis to Los Angeles: Speaking as an America, I would advise that tourists avoid the country entirely. Not living there now, just going by what I see in the news, anywhere in the country has the potential of being a deadly experience.

Canada? Yes, I think that would be a serious contender in my list.

With a President who lives with his head inside his mobile phone, I have to agree with Bob - avoid the US like you could get plague. The head-in-phone syndrome may be contagious.

Joe, the moment you posed your question, 4 choices came to me.
1. The Trans-Canada rail trip from west to east.
2. The Inside Passage boat trip from Vancouver to Alaska.
3. The Indian-Pacific rail trip across the bottom of Australia.
4. The Eastern & Oriental Express rail from Singapore to Bangkok.

There are lots of other options.

[Yraen]

Colmx said, "So you would need to take train to Langawi (another Malaysian Island north of Penang) and take the ferry to Phuket"

There is no train to Langkawi - it is an off-shore island. So it would probably be train to Butterworth, bus to Alor Setar, ferry to Langkawi Is, then ferry to Phuket.

Joe, as you are into train trips, this is one heck of a diversion for a train line that runs straight (?) up the peninsula from KL to Bangkok. Though, Penang Island and Langkawi Island are both worth a visit of several days.