Riding the Rails

[hollyking]

One of my favorite memories from childhood is riding the train to and from Grandma and Grandpa's house. We were living in Kansas City but Mom was from Webster Groves and her parents still lived there. Thanks to Amtrak ragnorokt and I were able to visit our grandparents every summer even if our parents had to work. Mom and Dad would drop us off at the Kansas City station and Grandma and Grandpa would pick us up at the Kirkwood station. At the end of our visit we would reverse the trip and come home. Sometimes our parents would drive to Webster Groves for the weekend and we would all drive back together. (The train was more fun and we had more room.)

To this day I still love train travel. It doesn't matter if it's a short hop on the local light rail or a longer trip on Amtrak. So I'm still bouncy from booking a train ride to Leavenworth yesterday. I haven't travelled as much as I would like but it's a small price to pay to get out of debt. I look at those balances drop, and they are dropping quickly now, and remind myself that when it's paid off we're going redirect some of that budget toward travel. An some of that travel is going to be on trains.