Review: Tales of Trains – where the journey is the destination

The journey really is the destination when it comes to trains.

Nora Dunn (AKA The Professional Hobo) has me beat on so many levels. Granted, we have very different traveling focuses and interests, but let’s put that aside for now. Her new book, Tales of Trains, is a retrospective of previous train travels in diary format.

While she makes it clear her book is not a “how-to-travel-on-trains” guide, there’s definitely something to be said about setting the expectations of what taking the train is...