I'd just like to say that amongst a group as intelligent and well traveled as yourselves, I'm really quite honored to be mentioned on this thread, especially since my reports quite intentionally focus on "getting there" as opposed to "being there". I suspect amongst the mainstream, reports on "being there" will always be far more popular but thank goodness for the variety of styles encouraged in Flyertalk's Trip Report forum in that it allows some of us bonafide airline and inflight service geeks like myself a place to put our passion into words, even if that occasionally includes my other passion - premium class rail travel.

By the way, I just wanted to add that if ever I had a "trip report" hero, the man who inspired me via his reports to actually have a go at writing my own was not a Flyertalker but David P. Morgan, the longtime editor of Trains Magazine. DPM as he used to sign off also edited and wrote some great trip reports for Kalmbach Publishing's excellent magazine "Airliners International" which sadly enjoyed only a short run of four issues back in 1973/74. You can still find old issues of it for sale on Ebay occasionally. They are well worth the money. Also kudos go out to Jon Proctor, the longtime editor of Airliners magazine who always encouraged me to write. It took me about twenty years to heed his advice, but once I started it's been alot of fun - both for me the writer and those of you who've managed to come along for the ride via my reports.