Before my first trip on Amtrak, I had always imagined the ideal journey would involve sitting in the viewing car talking to someone and enjoying the scenery.
Sometime in the mid-90s I went to Washington, DC, for my first trip by train. I remember packing 15 sandwiches, one for each hour. So, I'm sitting in the Lounge Car enjoying the Kentucky scenery and a guy about my age asked if I wanted company. "Sure," I said. We talked and looked out the window for the next 10 hours and I fed him half my sandwiches.
Experiencing my first trip just as I had imagined it cemented the magic of train travel for me. To this day I travel by train whenever possible, even if it means going several states out of my way to reach my destination.
The Magic of the First Trip
An Ideal Journey
by Bill Limbacher
Cincinnati, Ohio
Before my first trip on Amtrak, I had always imagined the ideal journey would involve sitting in the viewing car talking to someone and enjoying the scenery.
Sometime in the mid-90s I went to Washington, DC, for my first trip by train. I remember packing 15 sandwiches, one for each hour. So, I'm sitting in the Lounge Car enjoying the Kentucky scenery and a guy about my age asked if I wanted company. "Sure," I said. We talked and looked out the window for the next 10 hours and I fed him half my sandwiches.
Experiencing my first trip just as I had imagined it cemented the magic of train travel for me. To this day I travel by train whenever possible, even if it means going several states out of my way to reach my destination.