TAM3 location suggestions

[Doubt]

Fort William is a splendid venue for all types of event.

I have been to Ft. William to do some bike touring. It is a bit small.

Ft. William does have some nice Bed and breakfast places outside of town. What is the weather like this time of year?

 

[Dragonrock]

Dallas, it's a fairly central location in the US. You can get from just about anywhere in the US to Dallas in about 3 hours by air.

We have one of the finest collections of strip bars in the country.

Nothing much to see except for the 6th Floor Museum, so no chance of anyone wandering away and getting lost.

Shiner Bock beer.

Practically guaranteed protests from creationist wackos.

Impressive collection of skeptics already in the area including me.

 

[Doubt]

I still want Toronto. More reasons:

* Canada is less expensive than the US. Although the Canuk dollar is getting stronger lately. But so is every other currency against the green back.

* It is more central to the continent than the East or West cost cities, thus reducing travel costs for the majority.

* Has a good science museum, but I have not been there since I was 13. (It was new back then.)

http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/groups/recgroup/default.asp

* The city is home to immigrants from all over the world. You want some sort of food from your home country? Good chance you will find it there.

* I don’t think they will fingerprint people from Brazil who show up as tourists.

* Culture. Here is a list of what is around. Includes museums and theaters (Includes a link to Second City):

http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/links.htm



* Fear of cold is remedied by connecting most of downtown with underground shops and walkways. This is called PATH. See the link for info on the 27 Km of shopping and walking:

http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/path/index.htm

# More than 50 buildings/office towers are connected through PATH. Twenty parking garages, five subway stations, two major department stores, six major hotels, and a railway terminal are also accessible through PATH. It also provides links to some of Toronto's major tourist and entertainment attractions such as: the Hockey Hall of Fame, Roy Thomson Hall, Air Canada Centre, The Sky Dome, and the CN Tower. City Hall and Metro Hall are also connected through PATH.

* Chauffeur service for skepchics by Doubt Trucking. The truck can seat 5, but it is a bit of a squeeze. I like it that way.

* X-country ski lessons by Doubt? No, I don’t know the trails up there and I am not a qualified instructor, but I have taught a couple of people to ski.

http://www.trakkers.ca/ (Not sure that link will work, but they have Sunday trips out of town by buss.)

If you have not been to Toronto, you don't know what you are missing.

 

[FFed]

How about a mobile TAM3?

Rent a couple RV's and drive around like John Madden.

 

[jj]

Some suggestions:

Lake Crescent Lodge (Washington State)

Estes Park, Colorado (there's a couple of large, nice hotels up there, it will have to be summer)

Gardiner, Montana (ditto the summer condition)

I'd suggest Moab, Utah, but I don't know if there's any facilities that would work there, they're mostly "rock climber" facilities.

I'd suggest Apgar Village in Glacier National Park, but I don't think the chance of finding space there in the summer is very good.

I could be a wise guy and suggest that we rent the Corn Palace, but that is so far from anywhere, even Lisa

Hmm. Maybe Cedar Point, OH, and we could do some exercises in altered 'G' forces on 'Millenium Force'... Naah. Stick to the ones above, sorry.

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There's also Coulter Bay Village, etc, the areas in the Tetons, but they are for a more, um, expensive class of people than I'm used to hanging out with.
Seriously, the 'Yellowstone Inn' in Gardiner has a big "barn" structure that will keep the rain and the chill off for groups, and lots and lots of rooms.

How many people are we talking about here?

 

[jj]

I still want Toronto. More reasons:

How about Victoria or Sidney (BC, not Australia)? We could have tea at Butchart Gardens There are a lot of tourist facilities about the area.

 

[Foofer]

I would suggest either Washington D.C. or San Diego.

 

[Cleopatra]

How about Victoria or Sidney (BC, not Australia)? We could have tea at Butchart Gardens There are a lot of tourist facilities about the area.

Why go to Australia and not come to Greece then. I assure you it's more interesting!!!!!

 

[rustypouch]

Then bring it on to Alberta!

Calgary is a lovely city...

Another vote for Calgary, or at least western Canada.

 

[GroundStrength]

Dallas, it's a fairly central location in the US. You can get from just about anywhere in the US to Dallas in about 3 hours by air.

We have one of the finest collections of strip bars in the country.

Nothing much to see except for the 6th Floor Museum, so no chance of anyone wandering away and getting lost.

Shiner Bock beer.

Practically guaranteed protests from creationist wackos.

Impressive collection of skeptics already in the area including me.

Sounds great to me.

 

[jj]

Fort William is a splendid venue for all types of event.

Yes, but when the tourist board has trouble putting up 4 of us, it's going to be really tough to put us all up, isn't it?

Besides, how do we get there, take the train, or take the bus to that forsaken bus station?

Heck, why not Lochcarron? Or South Ballahulish (sp?), the smoked trout at the pub there is quite good. You know, just north of the bridge?

 

[jj]

Why go to Australia and not come to Greece then. I assure you it's more interesting!!!!!

Well, actually, I was suggesting Canada, not Australia, but yes, Greece might be more interesting. On the other hand, how do we get the lumber all the way down to the bay?

 

[Lavie Enrose]

Then bring it on to Alberta!

Calgary is a lovely city...

So is Edmonton.

I would suggest Calgary, as well.

I would also suggest Newfoundland - a beauty place, and really nice people.
If TAM 3 was being held in the winter, I would suggest British Columbia where the winter is usually milder than the rest of Canada - for those who can't handle a Canadian winter.

Ooh! I have to go out and shovel the snow, again! This will be the third time today! It just keeps snowing!

 

[Craig]

Come on, come to Scotland.

I just took this photo of the view from my window:

Honest.

 

[Checkmite]

CLEVELAND! I assure you, both the Cleveland Public Library and the Cleveland Museum of Art are world-class...though perhaps not as great as New York.

New York, Chicago, and Toronto are acceptable locations.

 

[Cleopatra]

Well, actually, I was suggesting Canada, not Australia, but yes, Greece might be more interesting. On the other hand, how do we get the lumber all the way down to the bay?

I read it hastily. I thought you said Australia and not British Columbia!!I am sorry. I am not sure I got what you mean but as a Greek I can promise you a solution without knowing what your problem is.

Craig, what's that? A sea of whisky?

 

[jj]

Come on, come to Scotland.

I just took this photo of the view from my window:

Honest.

Yeah, yeah "....caribisles.com"
I've seen InverEwe, it looks nothing like that. It does have palm trees, though.

 

[DVFinn]

New York certainly has the better museums and thetres. New Orleans, on the other hand, is the hands down winner for pure fun.

There are museums, plenty of historic sites, some of the best dining to be found in the US, the Audubon Zoo, the aquarium of the america's. Jazz and Blues (some say the only true american art forms). The Garden district is worth checking out.

Of course there's the French Quarter. Not that anyone here would be interested in a place where you walk out of a bar with your drink in hand, wander thorugh the antique shops, check out a sex show, and pop back into any other bar for a refill.

There's a whole row of palm readers, psychics and other assorted mixed nuts ripe for harrasment. Performance artists, musicians, etc on every other corner.

 

[jj]

CLEVELAND! I assure you, both the Cleveland Public Library and the Cleveland Museum of Art are world-class...though perhaps not as great as New York.

New York, Chicago, and Toronto are acceptable locations.

I suppose we could have a banquet at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, or something.

Maybe in the old CEI plant, among the biphenyls? Or over in Ashtabula on the old chemical plant site?

(Seriously, I once lived near Cleveland. I would probably be willing to go back to the sandbar north of Sandusky.

 

[geni]

For history museums and culture London wins hand down (it has been there far longer than any of these upstart US cities)