I live on the west coast and Im gonna shake it up and put a bid in for the Midwest, specifically the Minneapolis area, possibly Northwoods? I bet it would be pretty good up there in the summer except for the skeeters. one bid for the Midwest! -Mike
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Lee Chae <leec...@stanford.edu> wrote: > I was thinking that way, too, Anne. I actually started out an exercise > querying round-trip airline fares for various destinations from a variety > of cities (SF, NYC, DC, Seattle, Portland, LA, San Diego, etc.). I thought > I'd try Denver as a destination first. So far, it looks like Chicago O'Hare > would be the cheapest average round-trip flight from most of the points of > origin I checked. > > Lee > > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Anne Paulson <anne.paul...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> IF we are looking for geographical centers-- and I don't know that we >> are-- we should look for the geographical center of the rider's home >> towns, not the geographical center of the US. I suspect the >> geographical center of riders would be something like Denver. >> >> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Marc Irwin <irwin7...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I was going to chime in on that also. If it is to be a national get >> > together, picking a place in one distant corner will rule out a lot of >> > people just because of the travel. It will be a regional get together >> as a >> > result. As I mentioned earlier the geographical center of the country >> is in >> > northern Kansas almost equidistant from Kansas City, Omaha and Denver. >> I'm >> > not familiar with Omaha but Kansas City and Denver both have a lot >> going for >> > them and a lot of very interesting riding to be chosen. >> > >> > Marc >> > >> > >> > On Thursday, August 1, 2013 6:40:54 PM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: >> >> >> >> If this is to be a national get together, can we have it in the exact >> >> geometrical center of the country? Just kidding about that, but >> somewhere >> >> more or less accessible to the majority of participants would be nice >> to >> >> consider. >> >> >> >> Colorado? >> >> >> >> Of course, if most of the interested parties are in the PNW, then that >> >> would over-weigh a national distribution. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Andy Smitty Schmidt <54c...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> I wonder if we could find some sort of B&B type place that would have >> >>> rooms for those who want to sleep indoors and a lawn for those who >> want to >> >>> throw a sleeping bag on the ground. >> >>> >> >>> The Coastal Mountain Sport Haus is in the coast range west of >> Portland, >> >>> so not really near Bellingham. But if there's interest I'd be happy >> to call >> >>> and at least find out if they could/would accommodate something like >> this. >> >>> >> >>> My vote regarding date would be earlier the better... to maximize the >> >>> cool and green. Although by mid-July the berries are ripe. >> >>> >> >>> --Smitty >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> >>> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >> send an >> >>> email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >> >>> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. >> >>> >> >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> http://resumespecialties.com/index.html >> >> patric...@resumespecialties.com >> >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ >> >> >> >> >> >> Albuquerque, NM >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. >> > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> -- Anne Paulson >> >> It isn't a contest. 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