Malia Yoshioka is a freelance Food & Travel Writer and ESL Tutor from Hawaii. She's slowly eating her way around the world, 43 countries and counting so far! Get behind the scenes news, travel tips and the best food stories from around the web in her weekly Savor the Journey newsletter.
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Published 6 months agoย โขย 4 min read
๐ Hello from sunny California,
It's been an incredibly busy few weeks!
When we last left off, I was begging for your votes on my Eurail story. (Sadly, I only came in third place. We tried!)
But so much has happened since:
Did you know that one of the original โRosie the Rivetersโ is 100 years young and lives in Wichita? We got to meet her at the Kansas Air Museum.
I bought the Amtrak USA Rail Pass (10 segments within 30 days for a fixed price) and used the first two segments to travel six hours by train from Milwaukee to Minneapolis, for a single lunch.
Attended TBEX Summit America in the Air Capital of the World (Wichita, Kansas!) though I arrived by train, of course. ;)
Happy to announce that I was accepted into the inaugural cohort of the News Creator Corps.
Got my first byline for Business Insider, my first piece about train travel!
In total, Iโll be adding more than 5800 miles to my total for the six month period by using the USA Rail Pass. โ
๐ Would YOU consider a USA Rail Pass to hop-on / hop-off across the country? What questions would you have about using one? โ
๐ Hit reply and let me know so I can answer them in my upcoming post about it!
Hot off the press ๐
My first piece for Business Insider has been in the works for a while, so the headline is already out of date. By the end of October, Iโll have covered more than 10,000 miles and 27 US states since coming back, all by train.
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โ๏ธ Starting October 12, the European Union has launched a new Entry/Exit System (EES), which means that most visitors from outside the EU will need to have their fingerprints and other biodata captured when entering for a short stay. Details here.
๐ Looking to unplug these days? Travel Charlee brings us trip blueprints for her recommended digital detox locations. (Iโm heading into the mountains in Yosemite this weekend to unplug!)
The Meal-a-Day Method shows you how to use one meal a day as your language practice anchor, with a short video and printable guides you can use on your next trip. Just $5 for newsletter readers.
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๐ Hi, I'm Malia Yoshioka!
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Malia Yoshioka is a freelance Food & Travel Writer and ESL Tutor from Hawaii. She's slowly eating her way around the world, 43 countries and counting so far! Get behind the scenes news, travel tips and the best food stories from around the web in her weekly Savor the Journey newsletter.
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