Soon after arriving in Seattle, Hope received some sad news. Her maternal grandmother had passed away, and the funeral was now being planned. In addition to grieving the passing of her grandma, this also meant that we had to cancel the rest of our trip plans. In addition to our planned trip together to Glacier, I cancelled the remai…

On the scale of train travel fandom, I’d put myself at about an eight out of ten. I was never one of those kids who built train sets, although I liked watching them whenever we were stuck at a railroad crossing as a boy. My appreciation for traveling on trains came later in life, and is specific to long-distance leisure travel. (Sub…