{"id":5565,"date":"2019-10-27T23:14:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T03:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=5565"},"modified":"2019-10-27T23:14:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T03:14:58","slug":"autumn-excursions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/autumn-excursions\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Excursions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today started with an adventure. An train ride through the countryside of rural Maryland. It started a few weeks back when we went looking for fall foliage train rides<\/a> and located a few in Maryland. We decided to try the Walkersville Southern Railroad<\/a> for our first ride. It was closer to home, cheaper and didn’t require getting up as early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it was indeed a train ride. Through the wilds of townhome developments and backyards. We passed over a pretty creek and held up traffic across a few roads. It was a short hour-long ride up and back a single track. (Did you know trains could go forward then reverse back the same they came?) It was a short train with two open-air cars (and hard wooden benches), two indoor cars (with padded seats and windows that opened) and a caboose decorated to be used as a birthday party setting with limited (padded) seats and two small chairs up a ladder at the top of the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was unusually full, I had assumed on a beautiful 70 degree day in October people used that as an excuse to take their kids on a train. But the ticket taker commented this was as full as one of their Christmas rides and it wasn’t usually this packed (there wasn’t an empty seat on the train).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Creek
Creek the train passed over.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I wish it had taken us past some actual fall foliage rather than through town, passed developments (that perhaps were trees once.) But it was a pleasant ride and not so expensive I regretted the trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the ride, we walked through their small museum, and daydreamed about setting up our own elaborate country scene with model trains running through it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afterwards, we had some shopping to do which led to our next adventure of the day we didn’t plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the few aisles that didn’t have books lined up along each shelf on the floor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We stumbled upon Wonder Books and Video<\/a> in Frederick, Maryland. And it was far better than I could have hoped. The book shelves stretched forever with cluttered, but well-maintained stacks of every sort of books, new and old, one could hope for. There was also a huge selection of DVDs and Vinyl. There were also cassette tapes and 8-tracks. I could have easily spent all day in the store and far more money than I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Books
Need colorful books to complete your shelves? Wonder has them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From the FREE OLD BOOK SMELL sign on the door, to the friendly, helpful staff inside, may be the perfect bookstore. We have already made plans to return with a list as I have the problem of never remembering what books I’m looking to buy when I’m in a place to buy them. Beforehand, they flood my brain. Afterwards, they haunt me like apparitions of a lost opportunity. But in the moment, my brain empties, achieving a perfect meditation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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