Finding True Love on a Finnish Train Ride

Jane: I decided to take a trip to Norway to see where my people came from. I had a wonderful trip.

One of my uncles said to me, “You can't just see Scandinavia on your first trip… You have to see something a little different.”

So I went to Finland on a train. And coming back to Norway from Finland, I met a young man on the train. He was from Denmark. We fell in love on a train. And there was no doubt in my mind, nor in his, that this was the right person. I was only with him for a little bit less than two weeks, and then I came back to the US. 

I told my parents that I was going to marry this young man. 

We had decided that we would spend two years in Denmark, and two years in the US if we decided.

It didn't work out that way because he was an engineer. He got asked to go to Mexico to start a business there. So we went to Mexico for six years and had our children there.

Then, we went to Denmark for four years.