Last fall I was scheduled to take a trip down to Georgia for our first annual Pursuit 31 photography conference. The problem was it was sandwiched in between 3 weddings and I don’t like to get backlogged with editing and production work before the next wedding. So shooting a wedding on a Friday, then again on Saturday, then stuck in airports all day Sunday, WHILE suffering from post wedding hangover (the feeling a photographer gets the next morning after shooting a long wedding which is equivalent to being hit by a mack truck) and then working and speaking at a 4 day photography conference, then coming home late friday, and shooting a wedding on Saturday was insane just thinking about it.
Finally my genius husband reminded me of my love of the Amtrak train since we fell it love with it during our trip to Montreal. That I could easily hop on Sunday afternoon, nurse my wedding hangover, cull/edit during the nice relaxing train ride, get all of my work done late into the night, go to sleep and wake up refreshed and ready to go when I arrived at the conference. I had planned on grabbing a nice roomy coach seat, but one of my awesome clients, Renee, gifted me with this lovely upgrade you see below – a roomette. It comes with VIP service, dinner at the fancy white table cloth dining car and even “room service” if requested. I had to fly home to make it back in time for the next wedding, but I was also blessed with my very first, first class upgrade by a nice man named Larry from Airtran.
This Roomette is actually the smaller room of the two, but plenty big and private with all of the “amenities” that one would need for an overnight trip. Even turn down service to turn the seats into a bed. There are actually two beds, but I didn’t take a photo of the top “bunk”.
Some friends tease me for my love of the train, but I dream of one day trekking around Europe on some train/hotel where each morning we would wake up in a different city, but without having to re-pack our luggage and move to a different hotel each day.
The plan went off without a hitch. I got all of my work done, rested, slept a little, and then realized somewhere around 12 PM, that I was actually ON a train, at midnight, headed to Georgia. Oh the irony. lol
XOXO,
Angie
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Rachelle Chase - that looks like so much fun!