When I graduated from 8th grade, Yvonne invited me to go to California with her on the train to visit her relatives. I had never traveled anywhere and this was a very big deal in my life. On the train I got to sleep in a sleeper car, play cards in the club car, eat in the dining car. In California we went to many of the attractions and she opened up a whole new world for me. Maybe that is where I got the travel bug that I still enoy.