Re: A step beyond Rail Camp on the D&S, suggestion,

Chris Webster Wrote:
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> No offense Chris, but your repeated use of I shows
> why Chama and Antonito need better hotels and
> restaurants.

No offense taken, other Chris, though I'm not sure I follow the logic behind the "repeated use of I shows why Chama and Antonito need better hotels and restaurants."

My whole point of my overly-long ramble was that "I" reside on a different point on the "visitor experience" continuum than some folks. In fact, every one of us probably inhabits a slightly different point on the scale of what we want or don't want out of a "visitor experience" anywhere we go, the CT&S, Disneyland, or Yellowstone, from plush to sleep-on-the-ground. My point was that not everyone wants the sort of upscale visit that I felt was was being discussed. I like my coffee black and my locomotives greasy. Others prefer lattés and diesels. Both are fine and available to them as wants, just not necessarily in the same place.

I would love to see Chama and the C&TS combine to make a concerted effort to support each other more than they currently do to widen the "visitor experience" on the railroad and I even have no problem with a chain hotel on the edge of town. I just like Chama and the railroad black and greasy because that's the way it was 100 years ago that's all, and I think there are some other "I's" out there who might agree. Or not.

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