[Shotimes] SEATTLE CONVENTION

[Donald Mallinson]

Everyone:

The poll was just a fun way to try to get a feel for what 
people are thinking.

Chances are we won't go to Washington state in 2006, that is 
too close to the San Francisco event, but I wanted to put 
out there all the places that are in my mind for future 
events.  Not that we will go to all of them, and not that 
others can't be included, they can be!

The poll isn't binding of course, but a guide to future 
planning.

Jan and I are spending a couple days in Indy this week to 
set the host hotel and some other plans for 2005, then we 
can get the next magazine out that has been holding for 2005 
convention info.

George, I know between you and the folks up in Washington 
state (Kurt and others) that a convention there is bound to 
happen.

Don Mallinson


George Fourchy wrote:
> 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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