Hey everyone. Yes I’m still alive, but life has sort of been taking me a new road this year. While graduating from high school last year I had not applied to any colleges as I had no clue of what kind of career path I wanted to take or school I wanted to go to. So I ended up taking a few basic courses at a local community college in the fall. It was really my taste and it just felt like an additional year of high school. In the mean time, as Sean mentioned, I’m working for Cape Air, which is a local commuter airline of New England, Florida, Caribbean, and Micronesia operating select routes under Continental Connection and Continental Micronesia. There I work as a customer service agent and while part time in the fall I became full time thru the winter working 5-6 days a week. While working for Cape Air my interests in aviation really began to take off and I saw it as a career opportunity in the future. So looking at colleges I found Lynn University in Boca Raton that offers aviation/airline management and flight training. I applied and got accepted with a scholarship and will be starting this coming fall.
So between working full time and going to school part time I really began to loose the touch on the Amtrak world, though I still followed up on what was going on (though nothing new until the past couple of weeks really). I still hang out with Sean from time to time. This past March we covered the entire Tri-Rail line and visited The Gold-Coast Railroad Museum in Miami. However, we got caught unexpectedly in the midst of Thomas the Tank Engine day so all the exhibits were shut down. Though, we did get and unexpected short cab ride in a 1951 GP-7, which was neat. This summer Sean will be coming north and we’ve booked and are confirmed on trains 141 and 91 down to Florida. In Florida we hope to hit the museum again and go in some of the old Amtrak Heritage equipment. I really look forward to this trip as I still have my love for rail travel and it’s been almost a year since I have stepped aboard an Amtrak train.
I still visit the forums from time to time, but I hadn’t realized it’s been so long since I posted! I’ll try to become more active again and stop in from time to time. Anyways, sorry to ramble on, hope everyone is doing well themselves and still riding those trains! Take care.
Jon
P.S. Those trying to access my website, it has been down so I could clean it up a bit. Most of the work is done and I’ll try to get it back up over the next few weeks.
