The Great Journey: Just Because the Ride’s Long Doesn’t Mean It’s Boring

In the months leading up to my great Trans-Siberian Railway journey, I thought of how boring the six-day ride would be, given the colossal 8,000-kilometer track between Beijing and Moscow. It may seem usual but the things I thought I must do on the train would be: write a day-to-day journal and read a book, aside of …