Caboose Camping

Very cool, Deb. Looks like a great time. Thanks for posting.

Choo Choo!!!!!

I love that caboose. Thank you for sharing it with us.

What a brilliant idea! Oh, and the hospitality! The views! I'm envious too. How wonderful an experience!

Thanks everyone, it is a unique, fun experience.

Never been on a train or a horse. I will take the train. Horses have BIG Teeth!

Thanks for posting such awesome pictures of "MY" vacation.

:-)

It sure is nice to escape on a vacation for 10-20 minutes!!

Where we going next??!!??

Thanks for giving us this great "get away". I've never heard of this before, but sounds awesome. So glad you had a great trip.

Donna

That was too neat Deb!! Thanks for sharing that with us, I got a mini vacation and didn't have to brave the cold! LOL

It's not cold enough where you are, Celeste?

Oh yeah, chilly plenty!! 27 When I got up this morning.

Just so you don't think we are all magnolias and jasmine...supposed to be twenty nine by Monday night. Darn!!! I have hundreds of peppers and tomatoes out there. I'm late in harvesting basils because many varieties of bees and wasps are enjoying the flowers. Got tons of fresh beans on the vines. Green beans as well as beans to dry. A few long days ahead.
L

Thanks everyone, glad you enjoyed it.

looked like a nice trip

I want to go caboose camping!!!!

You would love it Jan!That's why we do it every year. There were tons of rhodedendrons along the river - would be beautiful to go when they are in bloom. We've always gone in the fall.

Is it costly, Deb? How do you arrange it? Or do you have to belong to train clubs etc.?

Not too costly Carrie, and membership not needed. Here is a link. I bet if you googled excursion trains you would get a lot of results. DH finds them in his magazines, and brings a train travel book on all our vacations to see if we are close to an excursion train ride.

http://mountainrail.meer.net/mountain-rails/Cast-Away-Caboose.html

Oh that is such a cool idea! Now, to get to W.V. and to get the vacation time...

How beautiful! What a great idea for a get away. Oh, yes! I definitely want to do this some time. Thanks for sharing your vacation with us, Deb, and for the link.

Glad you enjoyed it Candyce.

Oh noooooo. DH has been in a plane crash, a bus crash, a car crash ... so he's systematically avoiding trains and boats!!! (We've only been married 8+ years. It's never come up before!) He feels he is due for a train wreck and a boating accident. What a nut.

That is one amazing trip!!! I have NEVER heard of that type of camping but everything you showed and explained sounds fantastic. Now that is a camping trip I certainly wouldn't mind at all. Glad you enjoyed yourselves.

Thanks Dawn, the caboose is so nice, it really isn't camping!!

Sounds like an awesome idea and we have friends in Elkins, WV.

Perfect Jen, visit your friends, then go, or all of you spend the weekend on the caboose.

Sounds like a plan.

Deb, that's sounds fantastic! Now I want to do one. Will have to look for one in this area, though that sounds like a great place, too. Thanks for sharing!

Karen

It was a 9 hr drive for us to get there, so we have to plan a couple extra days around it. We used to do one in PA, til the Kinzua bridge was taken out by a tornado and the RR went out of business. That was only a 3 hr drive. The area is pretty there, so is worth the trip. DH doesn't mind driving, I might get a little cranky.

Thank you so much for sharing. My wife and I will take a serious look.

May I encourage you and others to investigate the Delta Queen Paddle Wheel boat trips which are just the opposite from the very nice train trips. The Delta Queen runs a two or three day trip from Pittsburg into West Va. and back. Pricy but by all means worth every penny for a mega vacation of short duration. She is an inland first class historic boat traveling through the hearland of America. I think that short turn-around trip only comes up once a year.

I used to get flyers for the Delta Queen, I'm wondering why we never did it before we had kids??

Our answer to your question is we had to grow, educate and get the kids out of our major expense concerns. That brought us up to a few really neat things that became possible because of our delayed gratification phase for our later years.

The boat trip sounds good too, will definitely check into it, thanks.

I tried to find info, it sounds like 2008 is the last year for the Delta Queen to run.

My Grandmother used to frequent the Delta Queen

A private initiative to save the steamboat Delta Queen

http://www.save-the-delta-queen.org/

Sounds like she's in a little bit of trouble.

Delta Queen's last voyage strikes deep chord in Winona river man

http://www.startribune.com/local/33477614.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiU

I know, it's sad!

Thanks, Deb, for the lovely trip--have never been to WV, but it looks beautiful, & the kind of camping even I would enjoy. Have you decided on next year's trip yet?

We will probably do this one again. Maybe in late May, early June to see the rhodedendrons.

That Delta Queen sounds like it would be much fun. Too bad it is going.

Karen