Born on a Train: Riding the Rails of Nostalgia

This journal is all about my 40-hour train trip from New York’s Penn Station to Chicago’s Union Station and on to Denver on February 3-5, 2013. I decided to visit my oldest childhood friend and her new baby in Denver, and I figured it would be fun to go by Amtrak (www.amtrak.com). I wanted the experience of eating and sleeping on a train; I wanted to really settle in and see what it would be like.