07-15-2011, 07:42 AM
Greg, go to the web site and find all of the non-rail activities that they have planned. See if there is something there that would interest your wife. Another thing, the conventions typically open for registration on Sunday afternoon, but actually start on Monday morning,, and run through Thursday evening. The NTS opens on Friday morning through Sunday evening. If there is something that your wife would like to see either on the way up or back, you can also use that to persuade her. Also typically, the cost to sign up your wife for the non-rail activities is about the 1/2 the price of the convention. At this point my wife and I are planning to go the Portland for the convention in 2015, and she is planning to see all of the things in Portland that I will miss while doing trains.