Cabin Fever 2025

[Ischgl99]

You don't understand: SO & Family drop you off, they go do tourist stuff, then pick you (and your new possessions) up and head back to Kutztown.

My wife hates touristy stuff and shopping, so that's what makes it complicated. You can drop a normal wife off at the shopping mall for a few hours and do what you want, not mine. It's also 4.5 hours from home, it's just an hour from my sisters after we get there. We were planning on staying at a hotel one night anyway, maybe stay Friday night and do the show Saturday morning instead of driving down Saturday and staying that night, we'll see.

 

[mmcmdl]

Saturday the place is PACKED !

 

[mmcmdl]

Did you drive through Creswell?

Very close to it Chazz . Lancaster , Willow St , Lititz . About an hour 15 minutes .

 

[ChazzC]

My wife hates touristy stuff and shopping, so that's what makes it complicated. You can drop a normal wife off at the shopping mall for a few hours and do what you want, not mine. It's also 4.5 hours from home, it's just an hour from my sisters after we get there. We were planning on staying at a hotel one night anyway, maybe stay Friday night and do the show Saturday morning instead of driving down Saturday and staying that night, we'll see.

Amish Country is about as far away from a Mall experience as you can get: buggy rides, goat farms, home baked goods, you name it.

Saturday the place is PACKED !

Yes, Saturday is a nightmare (and Friday is getting over crowded as well - that's why I'm not risking my shoulder)

 

[ChazzC]

Very close to it Chazz . Lancaster , Willow St , Lititz . About an hour 15 minutes .

You haven't missed much: couple of shops and houses; blink and you miss it.

 

[RaisedByWolves]

The only thing we have here in the UK these days, is the Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition at the Warwick Exhibition Centre (used to be one at Alexandra Palace in London too, but that hasn't reappeared since COVID). You do get used machines and tooling for sale at the Midlands exhibition but only on dealers' stalls. There doesn't appear to be any facility for joe public to set up a stall.

If I lived in the US, it would be inked in red in my calendar, and god forbid any family member dying, having a funeral or giving birth on those days!

I would look into your steam events and antique tractor shows to see of they offer a fleamarket. You guys seem to have if not more, then at least more closely grouped shows than we do.

I have Bangor (1hr) and Cabin fever (2hrs), but other than that nothing I can think of inside of 4hrs or so away.

I've both bought and sold at Bangor and always had fun, even on days when I bought as much stuff as I sold.

Second thought, I also have the Washingtons crossing show, but I haven't been there in decades.

 

[ChazzC]

I'd like to get there sometime. Kind of a haul for me. Weather is the wild card, January has some interesting weather in the North East.

More East than North: while we do periodically have some significant snowfalls, in recent history I don’t recall any real impact on CF. However, a couple of years ago the Village Press editor had a fun time getting out of Michigan (lake shore & lake effect snow can be rough).

 

[WobblyHand]

More East than North: while we do periodically have some significant snowfalls, in recent history I don’t recall any real impact on CF. However, a couple of years ago the Village Press editor had a fun time getting out of Michigan (lake shore & lake effect snow can be rough).

Having driven through 7 hours of snow yesterday, it did make an impression. Most of the time it was fine, the rest of the time I was taken aback by the "first snow of the winter" driving habits of those around me! Seems that they forgot last winter. Maybe it will get better, but I'm always astonished that people erase what they learned a year ago. Takes them several storms to learn, at least for the smarter ones.

 

[ChazzC]

Having driven through 7 hours of snow yesterday, it did make an impression. Most of the time it was fine, the rest of the time I was taken aback by the "first snow of the winter" driving habits of those around me! Seems that they forgot last winter. Maybe it will get better, but I'm always astonished that people erase what they learned a year ago. Takes them several storms to learn, at least for the smarter ones.

Ah, yes: another reason it’s nice not to have to be somewhere at a certain time (or day) anymore. 6 years ago I spent over an hour driving through a “first snow” home from a meeting that was 15 minutes from my house: could have done it safely in a half hour except for all of the 4x4’s and over-sized PU’s that kept getting stuck (my AWD Equinox on Summer tires had no issues).