Over spring break earlier this month, I met up with a couple of college friends in the Washington, D.C. area (one friend lives there and two of us traveled there for a mini reunion). This post is not about what I did on my trip but rather about how I made the trip. There is a former Grinnell librarian who now works in D.C. with whom I’m still connected on social media, and I had observed for some time that she frequently took the train between Washington and Chicago. This inspired me to try that...