Midnight train going anywhere...

Today's NaBloPoMo prompt: If you could take a train journey through any part of the world, where would you go?

I love traveling by train.  I loved taking the train to work when I worked in the city.  I loved taking the high speed train (through the "Chunnel") from London to Paris (10 years ago now, wow).  Over ten years ago, my friend and I took the train from NYC to D.C. to visit Mike during his summer internship.  That was fantastic - hours of hilarious girl talk, all in the comfort of training rolling along the eastern seaboard.

So where would I want to go?  Well, pretty much anywhere, but I can think of two specifics:

1 - I would love to travel Europe by rail with nothing but a backpack.

2 - The Orient Express.  Because, really, who wouldn't want to ride the Orient Express, if for no other reason than to say you've been on the Orient Express.  But I think the line starting from Paris and having the option of going to Venice, Rome, Prague, Vienna, Krakow and even Istanbul sounds absolutely fantastic.

I jump on a high speed train
I'll never look back again
To Berlin, Kyoto or Marseilles
I'd go anywhere for you

~R.E.M. "High Speed Train"