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mountain walls and thick forest help keep a secret few have discovered. You have entered a sacred place, the eastern home of our magnificent symbol, the American bald eagle. These majestic birds are spotted on 80 percent of these train excursions. Bring your cameras for a great family outing. History and scenic beauty combine for an excellent travel experience. When the Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad returns to Wappocomo Train Station in Romney, you can visit their gift shop.
AAA Members: $165 per person Non-Members: $182 per person
CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE Saturday, Nov. 2 – Wednesday, Nov. 6
This new tour features the best that the Chattanooga area has to offer. Some of the highlights include a Chattanooga city tour, Ruby Falls Lantern Tour, Incline Railway up to the top of Lookout Mountain, a train ride on the Tennessee Valley Railroad Hiawassee Loop, see the famous Chattanooga Choo Choo, a visit to Rock City Gardens, a River City Sessions Dinner Show and a fall foliage cruise on the Southern Belle Riverboat with a lunch buffet included. On the way home, we visit Kentucky Horse Park and stop at
the newly opened National Veterans Memorial and Museum in Columbus, Ohio. This tour offers so much more, so inquire for the itinerary and price.
AAA Members: $984 per person based on double occupancy Non-Members: $1,084 per person based on double occupancy
WARTHER’S CHRISTMAS TREES FESTIVAL AND DICKENS VICTORIAN VILLAGE Saturday, Nov. 16
Bringing two amazing venues together all decked out for Christmas is a prescription for a very memorable one-day holiday tour. We begin by traveling in a deluxe motor coach to Dover, Ohio, to visit Warther Carvings Museum where, for eight days each year, they are decorated to the hilt with their annual Christmas Tree Festival. We won’t miss a beat as
we will be there to see the Christmas Tree Festival when the trees are looking their best. Afterward,
we have included lunch at Dutch Valley Restaurant
in Sugar Creek. Then we head south to Cambridge and partake in their annual Dickens Victorian Village festivities. We will meet a local guide in Cambridge during the mid-afternoon to show us around town and tour Cambridge Glass. We’ll see the fantastic carved Charles Dickens characters on the street which number in the dozens before the evening darkness arrives nearly two hours later. There are many quaint shops for us to explore in our free time and we won’t want to miss the fabulous Christmas light show at the Cambridge Courthouse beginning at 5:30 p.m. Dinner also is included at the popular Theo’s Restaurant
in Cambridge before heading home. This unique
stop at an Amish basket maker near Walnut Creek. We will stop at Heini’s Cheese in Millersburg and also have the opportunity to visit Kaufman’s Bakery and Bunker Hill Furnishings nearby. Before returning to Akron, we have included dinner at another Amish home near Berlin.
AAA Members: $129 per person Non-Members: $142 per person
BALTIMORE AND ANNAPOLIS Tuesday, Oct. 1 – Friday, Oct. 4
This new tour is chock full of fun for the entire family. We travel via deluxe motor coach to Baltimore where we stay all three nights. On our first morning in Baltimore, we go south to Annapolis, only 35 miles away, and take a guided tour of the Maryland State House. Then we take a tour of Annapolis and proceed to the U.S. Naval Academy for a walking tour that includes Bancroft Hall and the crypt of John Paul Jones. Weather permitting, we will see the noon formation of the Brigade of Midshipmen. We will enjoy included lunch at Dry Dock Restaurant inside Bancroft Hall at the U.S. Naval Academy and might see some Naval Academy students dining there as well. Afterward, we have included admission to the U.S. Naval Academy Museum where we will peruse the exhibits at our own pace. This evening, we travel to Columbia, Maryland, to Toby’s Dinner Theater for included dinner and performance of “The Bodyguard.” The next day, we take a Baltimore city tour in the morning, featuring the Inner Harbor, Fells Point,
Little Italy, City Hall, the grave of Edgar Allan Poe and much more. We take a docent-led tour at the B&O Railroad Museum and a train ride on the first mile of track laid in the United States. We continue to Oriole Park in Camden Yards and take a guided tour and see the press box and dugout among other areas of this stadium. Then we visit Babe Ruth’s Birthplace Museum nearby. Later in the afternoon, we have some free time for looking around the Inner Harbor on our own. Afterward, we take an included dinner cruise on the Spirit of Baltimore and return to our hotel later in the evening. On our final day in Baltimore, we visit Ft. McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine.
We stop at Federal Hill and then proceed on to the National Aquarium in Baltimore to explore on our own before beginning our journey back to Akron.
AAA Members: $997 per person based on double occupancy Non-Members: $1,097 per person based on double occupancy
FALL FOLIAGE TOUR –
NEW TYGART FLIER TRAIN
Elkins to High Falls of the Cheat, West Virginia
Friday, Oct. 18
We depart via deluxe motor coach early in the morning and travel through beautiful West Virginia
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and its scenic mountains to Elkins where we will board the New Tygart Flyer Train for a four-hour, 46-mile spectacular fall foliage train trip. From Elkins, West Virginia, we ride in luxury in the Family Parlor Car
and ascend through the mountains, going through a tunnel, seeing densely forested slopes in fall splendor, and then crossing the high bridge over the rushing Shavers Fork of the Cheat River before reaching our destination of the High Falls of the Cheat, an 18-foot- high, 150-foot-wide waterfall in one of the most pristine and remote areas of the eastern United States. The train stops at the High Falls of the Cheat, and you can walk down a short trail to see and photograph this natural wonder. On our journey to the High Falls of the Cheat, you will enjoy an included lunch. On the return trip, we will savor dessert. These climate-controlled railcars have large windows for viewing scenic fall panoramas and seating at tables. A powerful diesel engine pulls the New Tygart Flyer Train which is sure to delight everyone in your family. On the way home, we stop for included dinner at the picturesque, historic Lafayette Hotel in Marietta, Ohio.
AAA Members: $139 per person Non-Members: $153 per person
FALL FOLIAGE TOUR –
POTOMAC EAGLE SCENIC RAILROAD Romney, West Virginia
Saturday, Oct. 19
We leave Akron early in the morning aboard a
deluxe motor coach and head to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where we visit the Flight 93 National Memorial for one of the planes that were hijacked and subsequently crashed on Sept. 11, 2001. This year, there is something new to see here – a 93-foot- high wind chime tower. From there, we continue to Romney, West Virginia, to ride the Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad. The historic Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad is one of America’s most beautiful train rides and has also been featured on the PBS show, “Great Scenic Railroad Journeys.”We are seated in the most beautiful railcars on the train – the two first-class dining club cars. These vintage dining cars are scarce with only four such railcars existing in the world. We will enjoy an included sumptuous three-course meal. In addition to the railcars with large picture windows, there also is a covered car with open windows and a completely open car for viewing the scenery.
For three hours, enjoy a narrated excursion through a tranquil and pristine Allegheny Mountain valley. See historic farms and lush mountain fall foliage. Around every curve, you are rewarded with the splendor of native wildflowers, evergreens, and mixed hardwoods in various stages of fall foliage in a perfect countryside environment — experience The Trough, a spectacular narrow mountain valley. The South Branch of the Potomac River runs below. Above you, the high
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