Summer Holiday Weekend Recap
Hello and happy Monday to you! Did you melt this weekend? My Lord it was hot. And what do you do when you're us on a hot weekend? Dig out a tree obviously. 😑 Remember the pic of the tree from last week after the landscapers hacked it up? It went bye-bye. We were going to attempt to save it to possibly see if my friend could plant it at her new home (even though it should be done when dormant.) Well, after determining the roots attach to the Earth's core, we had to scrap that idea. We tried to get out early enough but it wasn't. We hacked off the top in sections using some really great pruning shears that made that job super easy then the Mr lobbed off the top so we could begin on the roots. We bought a shovel called the Root Slayer and I will say it did an amazing job getting through most of it. Neither of us are at our strongest right now so despite knowing we could've continued with chipping away at ...
Not sure I could do the overnight thing on a train. I just don't think I could sleep in cramped quarters or especially one of those trains with bunks that only have a curtain between you and everyone else. No thanks. But I do like riding trains for short periods of time. Wouldn't mind doing a train with a nice dinner or something and a nice round trip through fall foliage would be really cool.
ReplyDeleteI've ridden Amtrak from Washington DC to Philadelphia and back once when I was on a trip. I've also done touristy one day rides, but never anything longer (like overnight). I'd like to once, but I might regret it.
ReplyDeleteI have taken very short train trips while on vacation, from one city to another. It wasn't anything magical, but it was faster than trying to fly when you took into account travel to and from the airport plus wait times.
ReplyDeleteI have contemplated taking overnight trips with a sleeper car while travelling in Europe, but so far none of those trips ever worked with my overall itinerary. I have done similar trips on ferries, so the semi-communal sleeping arrangements don't bother me.
I took a train down to Carbondale in my teens, which was a small hike, and several in and out of Chicago. I was supposed to go to DC with my aunt one year but that got cancelled. I do remember train trips when I was in Europe, so I'm going to assume from one country to another. I would like to do a train trip in Ireland and Scottland, I think.
ReplyDeleteI took a train from Milwaukee to Chicago. That was pretty cool, and we were in the sightseeing car, so it was a clear glass ceiling to really get a full view of everything. I would totally do that again, but longer or overnight. Probably not.
ReplyDeleteMy SO and I took Amtrak from the SF Bay Area to Glacier National Park in Montana (and back). That was four different trains. Four nights of having to sleep on the train. We broke the journey with stays in Seattle and Portland and of course spent time at GNP. Never slept well on the train. We had a full sleeping car which was actually very nice and roomy enough for us but the movement of the train car kept waking me up. The tiny rooms where you face each other are called "roomettes" I believe and I could not handle that unless I had the whole space to myself. But, I would totally do it again because I loved being on the train and watching the world go by. Very different from a car trip. Highly recommend Amtrak's Empire Builder train out of Portland. The views from the astrodome car as it passes through the Columbia Gorge are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI've taken Amtrak's Empire Builder from northeastern Montana to Seattle a couple of times. It's about a 24-hour trip, much of it during the night. I haven't tried the sleeper cars instead opting for coach. I hardly ever had a seatmate so I could stretch out. Only once did I have trouble sleeping. I have a friend who swears by the sleeper cars. I prefer it to driving as it is a 2-day trip with some not so nice roads, not hitting interstate until almost in Idaho.
ReplyDeleteLook at y'all, ridin the rails!! 🚂🚆🛤️
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