Seaquestria & another Not Another Pony In Your Bed chapter! · 11:29pm Apr 25th, 2022
Y’all remember a couple of weeks back when I posted a story about a pony complaining about it snowing weeks after Spring started?
You’ll never guess what it did last Monday.
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Dumb weatherponies.
At least the weather was nice this weekend. Warm and sunny for most of it, and raining for the rest of it.
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Anyway, if you’re thinking of a road trip in the next couple weeks, there’s a new pony con in Ocean City I have decided I’m going to. It’s called Seaquestria, and it’s May 13-15 at the Grand Hotel. I don’t know a whole lot about what’s going to be going on, but it sounds like fun and I’m missing my annual pilgrimage to my ancestral homeland. Plus, if the con’s a wash, it’s a short daytrip down to Assateague Island, which has both beach views and free-range ponies.
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Maybe we can muster up a group of people to watch the sun rise over the ocean. That’d be fun.
In other news! It’s yet another Not Another Fimfic Author In Your Bed chapter, this by none other than Jet Stroke! Featuring one of our favorite G5 ponies!
The Ride Never Ends
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i don't have to guess i got a foot out of that storm and the next day it hit 58 and melted it all to a sea of mud.
my horses loved it.
Oh, have a good trip and con!
Do you have any thoughts on Ponyville Ciderfest? We're a ways out, of course, with months in which things could happen one way or the other, but I've been doing some consideration and research and think I might be able to make that one.
I'd like to go to Seaquestria for a Sunday outing but I don't think I can. Maybe next year, when my kid's a bit older.
Hey, if the snow doesn’t stick, it doesn’t count.
Awwww yeah, the train never ends!
Gotta have them free-range ponies
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My driveway is a sea of mud; I’ve got to add more gravel.
I bet they did.
Gotta roll around in the mud.
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Thank you!
I might go to Ciderfest, haven’t decided yet. That’s an easy weekend trip for me that I can plan at the last minute, so I don’t need to decide right away. AlwaysDressesInStyle is trying to twist my arm to go to that one, too.
Currently I’ve got tickets to Seaquestria, Trotcon, and Everfree Northwest.
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You’ve got a couple more weeks to find someone who wants to watch the kid . . . or maybe bring them along, Or plan for next year.
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yep now mix all of the mud in to and on to a horse that is shedding.
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and today yep you guessed it more snow today
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I bet that feels real good for the horse. It must, or else they wouldn’t do it.
Blah. We didn’t get snow, but we got some frozen rain/mini-hail.
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That’s a fair point. It stuck for a bit, then it melted.
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I know, isn’t it great?
Free-range ponies are the best ponies.
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"I might go to Ciderfest, haven’t decided yet. That’s an easy weekend trip for me that I can plan at the last minute, so I don’t need to decide right away."
Ah, makes sense. It's somewhat more involved for me.
"AlwaysDressesInStyle is trying to twist my arm to go to that one, too."
Heh, well, good luck -- whatever that may mean here. :D
"Currently I’ve got tickets to Seaquestria, Trotcon, and Everfree Northwest."
Ah, nice. I hope all of those go well for you! I do hope to make it to another EFNW at some point...
(Trotcon I did consider, but the transportation situation, for one, does not appear favorable for me. Whereas the Ponyville Ciderfest hotel, if it's the same one as last year, looks to be a very easy walk from the train station, which in turn has good service to Chicago, which I have multiple options for reaching. And on top of that, the convention hotel is a Hilton, which thanks to Bronycon I'm a member of the loyalty program for despite how little I travel.)
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Yeah, you’re on the east coast, aren’t you?
Might mean that we split the cost of a hotel room (yay!)
That is a good one.
Yeah, I don’t know what kinds of public transit get close to Trotcon. Amtrak only runs along the north side of Ohio as far as I know.
I haven’t seen any hotel updates for Ciderfest, but I think it’s at the same hotel. I can check with a source who knows her stuff and find out for almost sure.
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Yep. Getting to Bronycon was "Walk to the local LIRR station, ride to New York Penn, ride Amtrak down to Baltimore Penn Station, ride the light rail to right next to the convention center" (though that last bit got interfered with one or two years, IIRC). No dealing with airports, the limit on luggage being "How much can I carry?", just two transfers...
I looked into Seaquestria a while back, before the pandemic, as I recall, and worked out that if I could get there at all, it would require some complicated bus stuff. EFNW, unless I suddenly get a lot of extra time and money, if quite a ways away. Ponyville Ciderfest is still a lot more involved than Bronycon, but the tentative trip plan I have for it should be doable for me, I think, and I'd still get a couple of long distance train rides and some touristing around Chicago in too.
Do you mean you two, the two of us, or all three of us? I haven't looked at hotel room prices for the con yet. (In part because, although the Twitter confirms they'd planning a 2022 con and the dates they're planning it for, it doesn't actually have the location, while their website is still for the 2021 con.)
Aye. I was at EFNW 2015 to meet up with some people, as a special thing, since, IIRC, two of the people were already there, and the two other than me (I was, at the time, living in Georgia, and flew in and out of Atlanta) were in the case of one closer to Seattle than I was and in the case of the other on another continent, so it was going to be a long trip to anywhere in the US.
"Yeah, I don’t know what kinds of public transit get close to Trotcon."
Not much, based on what I recall of the checking I did. Both getting to and from the convention site and getting around while there. I think I could do it, and might have if, say, the last Bronycon had been held there. But while I've heard good things about Trotcon, when there are other cons that are much easier to get to? I don't really see a reason to pick Trotcon.
"Amtrak only runs along the north side of Ohio as far as I know."
[checks to be sure]
I was right that it's not only the north side of Ohio.
It's also the south side of Ohio.
The con, of course, is more or less in the middle.
"I haven’t seen any hotel updates for Ciderfest, but I think it’s at the same hotel. I can check with a source who knows her stuff and find out for almost sure."
Oh, neat; thanks. :)
It looks like it's a nice building, too, from what I've seen of it online so far.
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I’m guessing without using maps, but I would imagine that the closest you could get to Ocean City by rail would be Annapolis, and you probably can’t get there by rail anymore either. Ciderfest, I dunno how close Amtrak is to the convention hotel, but they’ve at least got a stop in Milwaukee as far as I know.
Potentially splitting three ways. My source is mostly confident they’ll be in the same hotel, but not 100; she isn’t in con planning for Ciderfest, just knows some people. I don’t remember what their block rates are; last year I decided to go late, missed the con rate, and since the normal rate was absurd ($500/night), I picked the hotel across the street which was cheaper and had cookies.
I didn’t know they hit the south side.
Yeah, in a public transit black hole. I suppose there’s Greyhound for the masochists/bus fans.
It’s very historical and has lots of interesting historical features. Not sure about the amenities.