Mona Tippins was born in Princeton, Indiana, and raised in Washington, D.C. She has lived in California, Florida, and Germany, but now calls Arkansas home. She and her husband Herb have two children and four grandchildren. Traveling has always been a favorite pastime for Mona, but her train journey to the world record remains tops in her travel memories. Her love of trains was inherited from her mother. Mona’s mother worked for the railroad in Washington, D.C. during World War II. Her father worked laying track in California in the 1920s. Mona is the author of European Train Travel Tips.