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HONORING SENIORS
very year, King’s us to Philadelphia where
Highway plans 6 to Tom would pick us up in
E8 tours, ranging in the bus. We had never used
PLAN many as 20 days. We plan before, so we had to rely on
this particular train route
length from a few days to as
B
Amtrak for information and
out every detail possible
details. To purchase group
and hope every trip is
completed without a hitch.
to buy 30 up front, then
But, sometimes there is a tickets for Amtrak, we had
hitch. purchase smaller bundles of
tickets as people signed up
As I write this, 46 of us for the trip.
are on a bus touring
Philadelphia, Boston, When we arrived at the
Niagara Falls, and Canada. train station, the travelers
Our activities started in wandered around the
Lancaster, Pennsylvania beautiful old depot as I
with a buggy ride tour of waited for tickets to be
by Vickie Walters Amish country, then an printed. The smaller groups
Amtrak train was to carry had their tickets already but
waited with us for the rest
to get theirs, since we were
all riding the same train.
As time ticked by and our
departure time drew closer
and closer, the ticket agent
couldn’t access our tickets
to print. Finally, when there
was only five minutes until
departure, I sent the small
groups downstairs with our
wonderful new assistant,
Debbie Paxton, to board the
train without the rest of us.
The ticket agent explained,
as the train departed, that
Amtrak had already printed
the tickets and wouldn’t
allow him to do so again.
It was all confusing and
complicated, but I was the
leader and had to think fast.
I called Tom to turn the
bus around and come get
us; then I had to tell the
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