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We were watching Kochak: The Night Stalker after doing some demolition of the living room section of Offhand Manor. We don't actually have a living room, but we've sectioned off about half the front room with the futon. The area with
kshandra's computer, the TV, and all our bookshelves is the living room. It works for us.
Anyway, I love Kolchak. While watching this episode - Firefall - when I remembered the Chicago, where the show is set, is soon to host a World Science Fiction Convention. Thus, a plan was hatched.
We're going to Chicon 8. And for at least part of the con, I will be dressed as Carl Kolchak. I might even volunteer to work for Publications. Which would be pretty awesome.
My wild-eyed plan is to take the California Zephyr out; and I'm sure
kevin_standlee will be organizing a group excursion on the train. Then fly back.
2022 is close enough to our 30th anniversary for it to count as that big trip. Saving now!
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Anyway, I love Kolchak. While watching this episode - Firefall - when I remembered the Chicago, where the show is set, is soon to host a World Science Fiction Convention. Thus, a plan was hatched.
We're going to Chicon 8. And for at least part of the con, I will be dressed as Carl Kolchak. I might even volunteer to work for Publications. Which would be pretty awesome.
My wild-eyed plan is to take the California Zephyr out; and I'm sure
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2022 is close enough to our 30th anniversary for it to count as that big trip. Saving now!
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Date: 19 Oct 2020 02:30 (UTC)TrainCon 2022
Date: 19 Oct 2020 03:28 (UTC)We definitely hope to go to Chicon 8 by train, and to encourage others to take the train with us. There were a bunch of fans riding the California Zephyr to the previous Chicon. I think most of them either flew back or returned by the same route. Lisa and I (using Amtrak points, which at that time counted the same for a trip between any West Coast points and Chicago) opted to take the longest possible single-train trip on the Amtrak system: the Texas Eagle/Sunset Limited (Chicago-San Antonio-Los Angeles), the only three-night trip there is. (We took coach seats from LA back up to Emeryville.)
I hope you can make the trip with us. Assuming DisCon III happens in person, we also intend to take the train there, via Chicago on the CZ and then on to DC on the Cardinal, which will be a new train for us.
It's never too soon to start planning TrainCon. The main complexity here is that it's the same year as Westercon 74 in Tonopah!
I love your idea to attend as Carl Kolchak; if you can work on the newsletter, that's even better!
Re: TrainCon 2022
Date: 19 Oct 2020 22:02 (UTC)Re: TrainCon 2022
Date: 19 Oct 2020 22:15 (UTC)no subject
Date: 23 Oct 2020 19:33 (UTC)I always loved Amtrak. One of my cousins is an engineer with Amtrak, lucky sod.