Reporter's note: Regular readers of the "Journal" know I make periodic road trips to the Seattle area to visit our daughter and eight grandkids. Many of those trips are via Amtrak, especially in the winter, and the rest are by car when bad roads are less likely to cause a travel problem. The last week of June I made a trip to the Seattle area, without my wife, to babysit our four youngest grandsons-age three to nine. Our daughter needed a little help as she was doing orientation for a part time job as a nutritionist-her first venture back to the workforce since her first child was born 20 year...