A pioneer ancestor of mine, Solomon Hockett, was part of a great wagon train adventure west on the Oregon Trail.
A very different sort of escapade awaits visitors to the Westminster Archives where a "digital neo-Victorian train adventure," is set to unfurl.
This is a "cross-country train adventure" by developer Days of Wonder, which sees you collecting virtual train cards for journeys, trying to score points for long routes while avoiding being blocked by other players.
The runaway train adventure, with a mile of twisting steel track and an 80-foot drop, opened officially this month at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., and Mr. Iger presided over the dedication.
It was 1975 or so, and the next year they took off on a wagon train adventure as part of the Bi-Centennial celebration.
If you have a day If you have the luxury to spend an entire day on a historic train adventure, consider a ride along the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in southwest Colorado.
Look for several getaway packages that combine a daylong train adventure with meals at the Grand Depot Café in Williams and one or two nights at the historic Grand Canyon Railway Hotel.
"It's a double nostalgia because you've got people like Penalty" – a venerable character apt to romanticise his steam-train adventures through the book – "who are bemoaning the loss of the steam engine, people like me bemoaning the loss of the diesels".
She's 18 now and still smiles about our train adventures.
But Pi tells two stories about his survival; there's the one about the tiger, and then, when Pi is ultimately rescued, he tells another story to two insurance investigators who find his tiger-training adventure unusable for their purposes.
