mark I also would love to have one at Los Alamos airport becouse my son works there but it is not exactly an easy airport to land at. Its a one-way airport with some tricky winds. On departure even if you don't get airborne your gonna fly.....off the mountain. Sante Fe might be a real good place for the westcoasters too. Steve Bray Jackson, Tennessee
>From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> >Reply-To: KRnet <kr...@mylist.net> >To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> >Subject: Re: KR> Gathering location >Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 21:22:47 -0500 > >Maybe there's a little room for compromise here. I don't think anybody can >complain about the venue that Larry and Chris have provided at MVN. It's >hard to imagine how it could be much better. But I also think there's >something to be said for the adventure of going to a new airport, and >giving >somebody else the chance to make me say "wow...this is a neat part of the >country", or "what a great Gathering that was!". Would you want to miss >the >great "Colorado Springs Gathering of '08"? No way! Or maybe San Antonio >or Ohio, or Wisconsin or MN? We could conceivably do it one year at MVN >and >the next somewhere "strange", still by secret ballot vote at the banquet, >of >course. Although there's something to be said for the traditional "banquet >pitch", you have to admit that it makes more sense to kick it around on the >internet weeks in advance so people have a chance to investigate, run it by >family members, think about it some, point out pluses or minuses to others, >or whatever. Maybe this is the best of both worlds... I don't know. > >I also feel like the west coast guys are getting a raw deal. It's great >that Lee, Steve, Jeff, Richard, and Rich fly all the way out here to the >Gatherings, but I'd love to have a year where we all fly to Jeff Scott's >field in New Mexico to see what a density altitude of 9500' is like. And >I"ll bet there are a bunch of west coast KRs that we've never even seen >before. If we had a Gathering out there and brought in some new ones, >maybe >they would come to MVN the next year. Or maybe we need to start cooking up >"KR Karavan" trips in the Spring just to get out and get together >somewhere, >like Joe Horton and I did in West Viginia one day. > >Just another angle on the Gathering thing. I'd volunteer to have one at my >father's farm (which I visited today), but I'm a little worried that >somebody would roll one up in a ball down there... > >Mark Langford, Harvest, AL >see homebuilt airplane at http://www.N56ML.com >email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > > >_______________________________________ >Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp >to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net >please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
