In 2000, to celebrate the millennium, I took a train ride. In fact it was not a short ride; rather, it was made up of 30 different trains and it took 60 days, though in retrospect it seemed like a very short ride. And it was not across the world; it was merely as long as a train ride can possibly be, from the southeast corner of Asia in the equatorial Pacific, to the northwest corner of Europe, in Arctic Scandinavia. The idea was to view as much of the world as possible, both contiguously and continuously, by train. Along the way I observed the world from three vantage points: from train windows, from inside the great bazaar of the train itself, and from brief but relatively intense walks (again, the theme of continuous movement) through cities and countryside in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Turkistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. There are more images and an on-line journal at the Runaway Trains web site.