Next on the List: Train Rides
For the next couple of years we're going to try to do the train rides near our destinations. One on the list will be the the Hiwassee Loop train ride out of Etowah, TN during our trip to the Chattanoo...
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We had a fantastic ride about 5 or 6 years ago, we, read that as ME and 4 women, spent a few days at Chena Hot Springs doing some Aurora watching and then the AK RR from Fairbanks to Anchorage. That was more exciting than the Trans- Siberian RR. They have full service parlor car and they open one side of the baggage car and allow you to go back there and take photos or just watch the critters and scenery. They even put out folding chairs in the baggage car. It's a White Flag train and also delivers the Sunday paper to couple of 80+ years on their homestead miles from any other folks.
We not only stopped to let a family of four off in a snow field so they could do some back country snow camping, we picked up a group of about 6 or 8 twenty somethings who had been out camping.
Stopped in Denali and took a lot of photos of this big mountain covered in snow but without is normal cloud cover.
This past fall we took the White Pass and Yucon Route tourist train. Really a cool trip. Much better than driving it in the MoHo. I did get this shot of Big Foot.
I'm trying to get the DW interested in Verde Valley and seeing as how we're heading that way next week...
We not only stopped to let a family of four off in a snow field so they could do some back country snow camping, we picked up a group of about 6 or 8 twenty somethings who had been out camping.
Stopped in Denali and took a lot of photos of this big mountain covered in snow but without is normal cloud cover.
This past fall we took the White Pass and Yucon Route tourist train. Really a cool trip. Much better than driving it in the MoHo. I did get this shot of Big Foot.
I'm trying to get the DW interested in Verde Valley and seeing as how we're heading that way next week...
