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By DIANA BIRD
Rappahannock Newt Contributing Writer
Browsing in Terry’s Japanese Empire-A Guidebook for Travelers published in 1919, I found a supplement on the “Trans-Siberian Railway.” The author, while thorough with relevant facts, doesn’t hesitate to convey his opinions where he believes them to be facts too, and his advice is not to take the railway trip. I cite just one of many remarks: “Trains make long stops at stations and are started by the triple ringing of a bell at short intervals. The third warning follows the second almost immediately, and the train pulls out forthwith. As to be left at a Siberian station is almost equivalent to falling overboard from a steamship in midocean, travelers should not stray too far from the train.”
Weighing this somber warning and others as dire, I nonetheless hoped that the seven days’ journey we proposed to undertake between Mongolia and Moscow would give me
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