Getting to 2012 Getaway

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 Sep 12 - 12:34 AM

I'm available for transportation toward Virginia on Monday. If the weather's good, I'm heading for Front Royal and the Skyline Drive, which will take me through most of Virginia north of Fredericksburg.
I'm in Fredericksburg now, heading north on U.S. 301 on Friday afternoon. Will that help anyone?
-Joe-
[phone] [cell]

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Sep 12 - 07:43 PM

riggy... she is expecting YOU at the Royal Mile sometime tomorrow between noon and 3... I guess...

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: RiGGy
Date: 27 Sep 12 - 07:17 PM

THAT was me !

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Sep 12 - 07:12 PM

I am supposed to meet ClaireBear in Wheaton, too. I wonder WHEN......?

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Sep 12 - 03:49 PM

I 'think' we have ranger1 worked out. Never hurts to have alternate suggestions...just in case.
(My son and his GF will be starting from my house, as will ClaireBear & Micca...3 cars... one additional person and luggage.)

We were planning on having her take Metro to Wheaton from Union Station.... better ideas?

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: GUEST,Luthier2b
Date: 25 Sep 12 - 12:53 PM

If you are unable to post a message on the http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/FSGWgetaway/ Yahoo Group, send an email to [e-mail] and she will help you out.

BTW: in your post(s); please include where and when you wish to be picked up from.

-E

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: GUEST,Luthier2b
Date: 25 Sep 12 - 12:48 PM

Ranger1; I am glad you are coming back.

Give me a call at 240-821-3420 and we can coordinate picking you up.

-E

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: GUEST,Luthier2b
Date: 25 Sep 12 - 12:43 PM

For persons looking for rides to/from the Getaway try the Getaway specific Yahoo Group http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/FSGWgetaway/ (you will have to join this Group)
...or if you only do FaceBook there is a FaceBook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/6674852231/

However the Yahoo Group is primarily Maryland-local members.

Regards
-- Eric

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Sep 12 - 09:34 PM

Tami... see long PM... we will find answers..

Any locals see this & have ideas?

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: ranger1
Date: 21 Sep 12 - 08:31 PM

Ok, train travel is looking better and better for me. Can someone in the DC area get me from the train station to the Getaway? Is there any particular station that works better than another? The 6:15 AM train from Boston is looking like my best bet, which would arrive at Union Station at 2:00 PM. Any help before I book my tickets would be appreciated.

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Janie
Date: 20 Sep 12 - 01:01 AM

If push comes to shove, Art, and you are willing to arrive in Washington waaay to early, I can detour to give you a ride in, but doubt it will be necessary for either of us. Just want to assure you will not be left "in the lurch," no matter what.

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: artbrooks
Date: 19 Sep 12 - 09:33 PM

Thanks, Bill. I was beginning to think nobody had even noticed my need!

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Sep 12 - 07:46 PM

Art... that is likely to be much easier to arrange AT the event. So many locals don't read Mudcat. One announcement usually does it....

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: artbrooks
Date: 19 Sep 12 - 12:08 AM

We still need a ride from the Getaway to DC Amtrak Monday - for a 3 PM train.

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Nancy King
Date: 18 Sep 12 - 11:36 PM

Yeah, well, that would be an award of some kind....

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Amos
Date: 18 Sep 12 - 10:47 PM

If you get Spaw to the Getawaym Maximilian, I'll kiss both of youse.

A

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Nancy King
Date: 18 Sep 12 - 10:07 PM

Hey, Max, if you can get Spaw to come to the Getaway, you'll deserve an award of some kind! Um, some kind....

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Max
Date: 18 Sep 12 - 10:01 PM

Anyone need a lift from Central PA or anywhere along the way?

I'll go pick up Spaw if no one else will...

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Sep 12 - 08:57 PM

If one takes Amtrack to the downtown DC station, it is an easy ride on Metro to the Silver Spring station, where there are various local folkies who might help. Stay in touch as we analyze the situation and make some calls.

It DOES depend on time of arrival,,,etc.

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: artbrooks
Date: 18 Sep 12 - 08:39 PM

When I was first considering taking the train all the way, I was told that there would be better prospects for rides from the DC station than Balt.

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: ranger1
Date: 18 Sep 12 - 08:23 PM

This little ranger is debating taking Amtrak south, but not sure which station is best, or how I'll get to the Getaway from there.

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: artbrooks
Date: 06 Sep 12 - 07:07 PM

Jenn and I are coming via Amtrak, but we're stopping off for a couple of days in Pittsburg and then coming down with our daughter. We need a ride to the DC Amtrak or to a Metro feeder station, in time to catch the 3:00 pm south on Monday.

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: RiGGy
Date: 05 Sep 12 - 07:31 PM

Hi Getters

Sorry to be a "sometimes" MudCatter, but I AM coming to this gathering.
Anybody coming thru DC [ or a different AMTrak stop ] who can offer a ride in to the event ? Riggy

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: artbrooks
Date: 12 Aug 12 - 09:04 AM

OK - time to start getting down to cases. I need a ride for 2 people plus small suitcases to the DC train station after the Getaway, in time to catch a 3:00 pm train to Raleigh.

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Micca
Date: 18 Jun 12 - 05:18 PM

I am hoping to make this years Getaway, but would need a bed for Thursday before and a pickup from the airport, havn't booked a flight yet ao it could be either Dulles(most likely) or BWI ( an Airport i dislike muchly) any of my DC friends willing to host an Itinerant Gnome? Please Pm me

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Deda
Date: 15 Jun 12 - 05:47 PM

Amos, it would be a very great joy to me if your nephew Adam could join you at the Getaway. I'll try to suggest it. Of course I'm also trying to strong arm into visiting me...
Love, Deda

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 11:12 PM

For the record, we are not hosting G'way travelers this year.

~S~

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Amos
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 04:38 PM

Oh, yes, I shall stumble on something to keep my wee sel' busy, I am sure of that!

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Genie
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 04:19 PM

There's always jamming in Balboa Park, Amos. Not to mention galavanting around the country (world?) finding other folkies to jam with.

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Amos
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 04:16 PM

This will be a more leisurely trip for me--I am going to retire around Labor Day. I am sure I won't know WHAT tuh do with myself...


A

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Genie
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 03:53 PM

Glad you and Jen are coming to Getaway this year, Art.    Last year we had at least 6 people from NC (3 different cars) at Getaway, and I hitched a ride back with Dani and Abby (then took Amtrak from Raleigh to Greensboro for under $11). I'm hoping there will be someone driving back this year who has room for another rider, but if not, the train (or maybe Craigslist rideshare) is an option.   

BTW and FWIW, my Southwest airfare of $320 is for two one-way tickets, one from Portland to Baltimore/DC and one from Raleigh/Durham to Portland.    Two one-way tickets are as cheap as one round-trip ticket.
I really love Southwest's policy of not charging fees for changing flights.   If you need to cancel one flight, what you paid for the ticket can be applied to any other ticket within one year.      So if I have the chance to get a free stand-by ticket to the Baltimore/DC area via a friend (which is a possibility), I can apply my $153 to some other flight that I take before June 13 next year.

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: artbrooks
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 09:52 AM

Genie, we are taking the train down to Raleigh.

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Genie
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 03:20 AM

Heads up, folks! Southwest Airlines is having a huge airfare sale, with fares as low as $99 one-way and up to about $155, depending on distance.

I just booked round trip from Portland, Oregon, to Baltimore/DC and back for less than $320. It's really hard to beat that -- and Southwest does not charge a fee for changing your itinerary (to different flights) or for the first two checked bags.

Now I just have to find a ride from the Getaway to North Carolina (Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro or somewhere within an hour or so of there).   Really looking forward to staying up till ungodly hours and being totally wiped out after marathon music sessions!

Genie

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Jun 12 - 09:16 PM

I always make the Getaway into a vacation - one time, it was a 6-week vacation. Last year, I went to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The town was so pretty and the beach was so nice and the crab so tasty, I'm tempted to make every year a vacation at Rehoboth. Anybody wanna join me walking the beach?

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: artbrooks
Date: 07 Jun 12 - 10:50 AM

As the "OP", I'll be posting train arrival (and departure) information in a month or two and begging soliciting a ride back and forth.

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Amos
Date: 07 Jun 12 - 10:24 AM

That's my Skippah!!

It is so strange, is it not, that there is this whole universe of affections and action and meaning that goes on for three days and then hibernates for a whole year, and then starts right back up as though it was the next morning? It's a time warp, man, a musical wormhole.


A

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: kendall
Date: 07 Jun 12 - 08:27 AM

If I ever miss a Getaway, check the obits.

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: MMario
Date: 07 Jun 12 - 08:23 AM

I got my "Are you coming" email yesterday so things are starting to ramp up!

yeah!

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Genie
Date: 30 Apr 12 - 02:48 AM

Still juggling the options of coming to Getaway this year or in 2013, since it seems unlikely I'll be able to afford the airfare for both.    I'm not racking up the frequent flyer miles the way I used to anymore, so after I use what I already have for a ticket, it may take 3 years to earn another one.   Reality bites sometimes.

Anyway, I hope to be there either this fall or in 2013.

Genie

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: ranger1
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 06:55 PM

Amos, the Getaway is a priority, isn't it? Me, I dumped a year-round job so I could get back to the Getaway! Well, maybe that was only part of the reasons for my job change, but it was a pretty big one. I have already cleared it with the boss at the new/old job. Life is getting better by the second.

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 06:01 PM

I'm lookin' forward to this year, but, it looks like I'll have to be sure and have twice as much fun as usual. It'll be **my** turn to be knocked out by work commitments in 2013.

-- Gary

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: maeve
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 01:12 PM

Kendall has started a thread looking for house concert leads for two members of the Maine trio Meteora; Kat Logan and Jim Loney.
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=144646&messages=2 They will be attending the Getaway this year and are looking for house concerts on the way down (and maybe on the way home?)

I'd recommend Kat and Jim even if they weren't friends; good music, wide variety of genres, both vocal harmony and fine instrumentals presented by charming people.

Maeve

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Bobert
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 10:28 PM

See???

I told ya'll that EJ would pull this... He loves an entrance... But, hey, whatever it takes, right???

B~

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Janie
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 10:21 PM

Yeh, getting hot by a bus will get you a lot of slack!

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Amos
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 10:07 AM

Aw, Lonesome, I didn't mean to cast aspersions about you being a Kahuna or nothin'. I figured if you were hot by a bus they'd cover the gap somehow until you got out of the hospital, right? An intern suddenly gets thrown into the hole as Show In Charge. Someone calls Manpower Inc. and geets a wino to do it...

A

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 12:18 AM

OK, I'll play hookey from the Trade Show. Now all I need is someone to employ me since I won't have a position afterwards. Amos seems to think I am some sort of Big Kahuna at my company who can exempt himself at will from such menial tasks. Oh, that it were so.
This show is set for the last weekend in Sep/ first weekend of October time frame, as is the Getaway. I will consider flying from Dallas to BWI again, but it's tough when you only get maybe 30 hours of Getaway, plus logistics of bringing 2 sets clothes, etc. We'll see.

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Amos
Date: 24 Apr 12 - 09:47 PM

Ernie Johnson, who has not lived up to the promise, started this one:

CHO: Lord willing and the creek don't rise, I'm going to the Getaway.
Out where the lonesome seagull cries, on the edge of the Chesapeake Bay
All the folks stay up all night,
Making music 'til the rooster cries,
Lord willing and the creek don't rise,
I'm going to the Getaway.


I've gone to work most every day
The whole dang year it seems
Trying to forget the singing sounds
That show up in my dreams
I've been through bitter winter months
And hellish summer days
And now by God, I've had enough,
I'm going to the Getaway

CHO

I long to see a country road
That leads up the shore
With folkies wandering 'cross fields,
Two hundred souls or more.
I hunger for the songs they sing
And the funny things they say,
So mister, stamp my ticket quick,
I'm going to the Getaway!

CHO

I want to hear old Bobert shout
The blues when they're done right.
And watch Big Mick put the Irish out
When he gets a little tight
I want to hear sweet Liz LaPrelle
Hold the whole place in her sway.
By God I'm done with the working life,
I am going to the Getaway.

CHO

When I get there I'll drink all night,
And sing a thousand tunes
And if I watch the windows right,
Catch sight of Ernie's moon!
I'll listen to the cowboy songs
While the ladies dance and play.
Be still my heart, I'm off to start
And I'm going to the Getaway!

Crude MP3 available on request.


A

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Celtaddict
Date: 24 Apr 12 - 09:02 PM

Amos. Wet. But beautiful.

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: Bobert
Date: 24 Apr 12 - 07:24 PM

Every year EJ pulls this same game...

"I gotta work" and then manages to show up... He'll be there...

BTW, Spawz... I considered your idea for about, ahhhhh, 1 second and it sucks...

Dani & Janie???

Ummmmmmm, can I get a ride with ya'll... I promise to behave and I don't take up much room...

B~

Subject: RE: Getting to 2012 Getaway
From: artbrooks
Date: 24 Apr 12 - 05:38 PM

As someone said earlier, the Getaway is cheaper if you belong to the The Folklore Society of Greater Washington...enough cheaper that the difference more than makes up for the membership. I guess that we are members every other year, more or less...gotta do that one of these days. Having members in New Mexico, California and (I assume) the UK puts a new meaning on "greater", doesn't it?