[Shotimes] SEATTLE CONVENTION

[Ron Porter]

George,

Waiting a few years is a good idea! That gives folks enough time to forget
the adventures on the long drive to get out there!

More than a few folks from back this way did some calculator exercises and
determined that flying to Conventions out west can be cheaper than driving,
not to mention the time commitment needed for a drive to the left coast.

I know that you folks have a long hike to get out east of the Mississippi,
but as you know, the mass of SHO folks are here.

Ron Porter 

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of George Fourchy
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 1:18 AM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: [Shotimes] SEATTLE CONVENTION


Hey Everyone...

I just saw this vote thing on the clubsite, and voted for Seattle.

Be advised I know Seattle almost as well as I know San Francisco.  Seattle
is my
second home, and the only reason I don't know it AS well these days is that
I don't
get to go there quite as often....it's 761 miles north of me, up "my"
interstate
highway, I-5.  I spent every summer there while I was growing up....Boeing
is in my
family, and I go up there for several days of relaxation, away from the
grind, every
chance I get.  The next trip will hopefully occur before this year is over. 
Ultimately I plan to move there, for the clean water boating and fishing.

In my mind, I've been planning a future Seattle convention all year, keeping
it on
the mental back burner while I was planning the California SHODown.
Heck...Seattle
and Puget Sound makes San Francisco and the bay look like a big shallow mud
puddle!!!   .....and I was born in Oakland, Ca., so don't say I don't have
room to
talk!!   ;-)

I've already given Don Mallinson a preliminary itinerary, and he said it
sounded
good.  We'll take a SHO tour of the San Juan Islands, half by road, and half
by
ferry.  We'll eat at the top of the Space Needle.  We'll eat a terrific
turkey and
dressing dinner, followed by wild blackberry pie for desert, on the way home
from
the Islands.  We'll have a chance to tour the Boeing Factory in Everett that
builds
the wide-body jetliners.  There are great dragstrips and road courses there.
The
locals know more about them than I do, but they are definitely there.

I wanted to wait until I retired from the FAA to do a Seattle convention,
since
there is so much more travelling involved in setting it up, so I was
planning on one
in 2007 or 2008.  However, I may be retired by next summer...there is in the
works a
major change in operation of my segment of Air Traffic, and that might be my
chance
to call it a day.  

I have no objections to having a convention in Canada, or anywhere else
(I'll be
there!!!)....I just wanted you all to know I was already planning a Seattle
convention, 
and I plan to have it be as much fun and as enjoyable as the San Francisco
one was.

I wanted to give you all a couple or three years to recover from this big
trip, so
that you'd be able to make another one.  I'm sorta thinking 2006 might be a
bit soon
for another convention so far away for most of you.  I voted for Seattle so
as to do
my share to keep it in the running.

...just so you know!!

George 
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