An early trip with my wife and kids was
cross-country from Washington,
DC, to Orange County, California, with stops in Chicago and
Denver. The first time I wrote a Rail Travelogue, about an Amtrak
trip on the Coast Starlight from Los Angeles to Seattle, was in 1996!
and I see that it is still online (over 10 years later) at:
http://cwrr.com/Lounge/Reports/starlite/starlite.html
I looked at my reports at TrainWeb.org, and found that my first report
for TrainWeb was probably in 2002, reporting on the Ringling Bros. and
Barnum & Bailey Circus train that visits Orange County, CA, each
summer. The Orange County Register wrote a story on me which is
archived at:
http://www.trainweb.com/info/newspaper/63995413.htm