The Train Station in East Lansing isn't in a half bad place. We take the train every year from Chicago. The hotel sends a van to pick us up. Just call and make arrangements for the transport and let them know you are going to be at the Train Station
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Honestly sometimes it's the best part o the con for us. :)
I can honestly say that that has *never* been the case for any of my plane trips to MediaWest, so this is good to hear! (Although when I used to hitch a ride from Pennsylvania with the Bunnies from Hell, the Reading O' The Zines on the way back was a heckuva lot of fun.)
Yup.. make arrangements like usual, but be sure to tell them you'll be at the Train Station. :)
I fly to Chicago from San Francisco the day before, and then, suzy_queue and I take the train the next day. We've done this for the last *counts* 4 years? I think. LOL
Gives us a chance to catch up and be all fannish to get into the groove of the con. Plus we can watch DVDs on laptops and iPods. :)
Ah... then say Hi to Centralia, ill as you go past. That's my hometown. I growed up there. LOL I can also explicitly say that the train station there is NOT in a bad part of town. Mostly cause it's downtown. LOL
It's sad to hear about towns going downhill like that, especially people's hometowns.
When I hear the name Centralia, I think of Centralia, Pennsylvania, which has gone downhill in a very different way. The coal underneath the town has been on fire for years; the town has mostly been evacuated, although a few locals stubbornly cling on. It's not very far (maybe half an hour or so) from where my son went to high school. The video game and movie Silent Hill are based on it.
Our Coal mine exploded in 1948 (or 9) and was one of the nation's worst mining disasters. Still is I think. 101 men died. We buried a lot of them. In fact, going through some stuff I got from the attic at the funeral home (Which was also my Great Aunt and Great grandmother's apartment) I found a newspaper with a list of the casualties, with writing next to each name of whether they were dead or injured, a time listed (their funeral) or another FH's name) It also had a note detailing other info and it was in my Great-Grandfather's handwriting. It was a fascinating find, not jsut for local history, but my own family history.
C-town has always had a dead downtown and it's never been the brightest spot on earth. (Can you say BORING???)
My family owns Garnier and Sons Funeral Home, so I've spent my whole life on that corner of town. I don't think I would say there are NO GOOD parts of town. There are still I think. It's not a town I will live in anymore... but chances are good if she's on the train, she won;t get off it if it stops in Centralia.
But... when you go past the woods in Richview... you'll pass one house with a pond in the yard and a big garden. That's my mom's house. :) LOL
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w00t! I did not know that!
Honestly sometimes it's the best part o the con for us. :)
I can honestly say that that has *never* been the case for any of my plane trips to MediaWest, so this is good to hear! (Although when I used to hitch a ride from Pennsylvania with the Bunnies from Hell, the Reading O' The Zines on the way back was a heckuva lot of fun.)
ETA: I would be coming in from Texas.
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I fly to Chicago from San Francisco the day before, and then, suzy_queue and I take the train the next day. We've done this for the last *counts* 4 years? I think. LOL
Gives us a chance to catch up and be all fannish to get into the groove of the con. Plus we can watch DVDs on laptops and iPods. :)
Ah... then say Hi to Centralia, ill as you go past. That's my hometown. I growed up there. LOL I can also explicitly say that the train station there is NOT in a bad part of town. Mostly cause it's downtown. LOL
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When I hear the name Centralia, I think of Centralia, Pennsylvania, which has gone downhill in a very different way. The coal underneath the town has been on fire for years; the town has mostly been evacuated, although a few locals stubbornly cling on. It's not very far (maybe half an hour or so) from where my son went to high school. The video game and movie Silent Hill are based on it.
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My family owns Garnier and Sons Funeral Home, so I've spent my whole life on that corner of town. I don't think I would say there are NO GOOD parts of town. There are still I think. It's not a town I will live in anymore... but chances are good if she's on the train, she won;t get off it if it stops in Centralia.
But... when you go past the woods in Richview... you'll pass one house with a pond in the yard and a big garden. That's my mom's house. :) LOL
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