Travel Surprises by Train, Plane, and Cruise Ship, Lessons Learned

For me, 2022 was the year of vacation. In one calendar year, I took 18 flights, invested 85 hours on practically 20 distinctive trains, and slept onboard the world’s biggest cruise ship for 7 evenings.

The author travels my plane (top), train (right), and cruise ship (bottom) in 2022.

The creator travels by airplane (top), train (right), and cruise ship (base) in 2022.

Joey Hadden/Insider


I’ve traveled a lot more in 2022 than in any yr prior. 

I began the year flying back again and forth between New York Town and Phoenix to take a look at my companion.

In February, I traveled to and from NYC and Baltimore, Maryland, in Amtrak Acela’s business-and-initially-course accommodations. 

Two months afterwards, I flew to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to choose my 1st-at any time cruise onboard Royal Caribbean’s Speculate of the Seas — the most significant cruise ship in the earth. For the duration of my seven-night cruise, I stopped in Honduras, Mexico, and the Bahamas. 

In Could, I flew to Austin, Texas, to visit extended loved ones. 

Two months later on, I took a company-course Amtrak practice to Niagara Falls, New York, exactly where I crossed the border into the Canadian province of Ontario. From there, I took coach and enterprise class trains up to Montréal and Québec Town in Canada’s Québec province employing the country’s Through Rail procedure.

That similar month, I flew to Salt Lake Town, Utah, for a marriage. 

In Oct, I flew to Berlin and traveled by teach by four European countries around the program of two months — Germany, Austria, Italy, and Switzerland — attempting out train lessons on various distinctive strains, such as OBB Nightjet, Trenitalia, and InterCity Categorical, from coach to to start with course, and two different sleeper cabins.

Eventually, in November, I flew back to Arizona to check out family members, and prior to the stop of the calendar year, I program to fly again to Austin once more for the holidays. 

But fairly than leave me exhausted, all all those visits left me invigorated to keep on looking at the environment as a great deal as I can. And I learned a handful of shocking factors alongside the way that I will hold in intellect up coming yr when I hope to travel just as substantially, if not a lot more.