Everyone,
(Well, everyone in the USA or Eastern CANADA - others feel
free to read but it won't be so appropriate :) )
To celebrate my approaching 65th (yikes!) birthday I'm
giving myself a great present. I'm renting a car as of
October 4th and driving
across the country to GCXX (The 20th anniversary of the
Grand Canyon Scrabble Tournament) and back -
taking about 2 months to do it - well, a bit less than that,
actually. I plan to be back here (being NYC) on
November 29th. This has given my friends Dave and Lisa
Noland an opportunity to get a taste of
city life staying in my apartment while I'm gone.
I'm hoping to do this without every straying in a motel or
hotel (except at the Canyon) and have a number
of friends and a relative or two that I am going to stay
with in a number of places. I'm hoping that some of
you would take me in for a night in between those spots. I
plan to do some camping, weather permitting.
I'm traveling with a pop-up tent and my own bedding and
linens, host and hostess gifts for all and I'll be
happy to cook you a meal in exchange for a place to sleep.
Scrabble? welllll maybe :)
(PDML'ers - this letter is pretty much the same one I sent
to my Scrabble mailing list - between
all of you and the CGP folk I'm hoping for a FEW replies to
my housing request :) )
I will be basically heading from NY upstate to the New Paltz
area where I have
friends, then on to Toronto. I am not into marathon driving
- like to do at
most 300 miles a day. HOping for someone that is about half
way between New Paltz and Toronto to visit on October 5th.
I have a place to stay
in Cleveland, and plan to be in Chicago on Oct 12th where I
also have
digs. Anyone between Cleveland and Chicago like to put me
up on Oct 10th or 11th?
I'll be straying with and seeing my oldest friend and an
aunt of mine in the northern burbs -
should be able to arrange a get-together with PDML'ers
somehow.
If anyone lives within say, a 30 or 40 mile radius of
Clinton, Iowa, I would be most
grateful for a place to stay. I'm doing some research on
family history and my mom was
born there.
My next official stop is St Louis on October 17th... I'll be
there for 2 or 3 days.
Then west through MO, Kansas, Colorado to Moab Utah. Down
through Monument Valley, Page,
and to the Canyon.
As long as I get to see ARches and Canyonlands again I'll be
happy.
After the Tourney I'll head down to Tucson then east to
Houston, where i have
family, and on to Ft Walton Beach, FL and up through Atlanta
and points north until I am home.
I'd like to start gathering a list of willing hosts,
addresses, phones and
instructions (I will have a cell phone though.)
My precise route after I leave St. Louis is not critical,
though I prefer not to travel on the main highways, I may
have to do it to
make tracks on occasion.
Don't think of me as a guest, treat me like family, I don't
want to impose.
Only thing is, I'm dreadfully allergic to smoke so if you do
smoke I'll take
a recommendation for a camp ground nearby :)
Looking forward to seeing some of you along the way and many
more at the
Canyon. If you are willing to put up with me for a night,
I'll be happy
to call you on my dime to chat about the logistics either
now or when it
gets closer to travel time. I feel like I'll be playing
follow the dots!
Write me OFF LIST, of course.
PDML'ers I've met in person so far - just Rob Studdert and
Amita, both of whom
have been to my home.
I shall, of course, expect to hear from any of youse who
claimed they wanted to "hang out" with me when we were on
that thread <g>
annsan
http://users.rcn.com/annsan//
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