Those of us from the west coast who flew Continental Airlines thru Houston or
American Airlines thru Dallas also found all flights cancelled (or at least
SERIOUSLY delayed) from Wx.
"skipp025" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Back from Dayton with the obligatory cold from the airline
> trip. I always receive a soda, a bag of pretzels and the
> latest third world sent cold.
>
> Those of us from the West Coast flew in to Chicago to find
> all flights cancelled from Wx. Many of us not wanting to
> spend the night in Houstin or Chicago rented cars and drove
> the remaining 6 hours (less the Chicago Loop traffic). Oh
> Joy what fun... All things considered, Indiana's highways
> are in great shape.
>
> Friday was great, the classic Dayton friday. Truck loads
> of boat anchors going both directions. Lot's of "deals of
> the day" going on".
>
> Sat brought the rain on, a semi light rain for much of the
> day just meant you bought one of the $1 plasic ponchos
> to do your wandering. A modest number of the vendors left,
> a larger percentage staying through Sunday. Most people
> just go inside to see the booths and various displays
> while the light rain passed through.
>
> Sunday was just great, both the weather and the people
> were in fine form! Everyone who stayed, had a great time
> closing last minute boat anchor purchases. Sunday appeared
> to be magic window for the Dayton flea market people.
>
> Things wrapped up and off everyone went, most tired
> with smiles on their faces. Sorry to read that some of
> you left early Saturday. I know one vendor who did,
> only to return Sunday and was very glad he did, selling
> most of his items upon his Sunday return.
>
> ****
>
> Here's a Dayton Sidebar:
>
> The Dayton Club "DARA" actully ran the Hamvention this year.
> Previous years were done by a contractor with "less than
> optimal results". Some of you know the entire story, which
> I'll not mention the details. Dara retaking control of the
> Hamvention from the previous contractor is a very good thing.
>
> So the Dayton Club "took-back" the Hamvention and ran it
> with mostly volunteers. The previous years contact and
> Hamvention information was not really provided to the Dara
> People by the previous contractor, so much of the quirkyness
> arose from the mentioned missing information.
>
> All things considered, the Dara People tried very hard to
> make the Hamvention appear seamless, with the exception of
> being more flexible and polite. I hope most of you
> expereienced Dara's efforts to make the Hamvention play
> as best possible.
>
> Next year will find Dara really trying hard to make the
> Hamvention the best possible. For those of you counting,
> the un official reported numbers are just under 22,000
> people this year. Not bad eh..?
>
> If you have any comments, feedback & suggestions good or
> bad... I'll try to pass them back to the Dara Group
> through my contact as I see them.
>
> It was great to meet many of you again and of course, see
> you again next year.
>
> cheers
> skipp
>
> skipp025 @ yahoo.com
> www.radiowrench.com
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