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TAM3 location suggestions

Soapy Sam said:
jj- I thought the original "Little Boxes on the Hillside " were at Daly City?

They were. That's just what the advertisements for Cumbernauld looked like, though, literally. Little boxes on the hillside...

Bozeman- Damn fine museum as I recall (Museum of the Rockies).

MSU is surprisingly good, and has at least one really substantial prof in my field there.

Dunno if the volcanic disaster you refer to is the probable future one at Yellowstone or the entire Columbia River / Snake River/ Scablands story, but you could always take out megavolcano insurance.

Oh, I'm assuming we'll see at least years of harmonic tremor first, I think that's safe, I meant the OLD disaster, the three "Yellowstone" craters, Huckleberry ridge, etc.

(Likewise mega quake cover for New Madrid- it's been a while since it moved much after all. Just think how happy the woowoos would be if a JREF convention was hit by a Richter 11).

Henh. I don't want to be sitting on all that water saturated sediment when it happens.

Anyway, now we have you transatlantypes thinking about other countries, how about Baghdad? Hotels should be cheap.

Ditto rounds for automatic weapons. :(

Actually Estes Park I could go for. Get some skiing in at the same time. Kind of hard getting up the skyline highway in January though. And that new Denver airport-ech!
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No, in January you take Rt. 36, not peak to peak highway. (cringe)

Yes, and take the new Denver airport. PLEASE!

But I was proposing August. We could all go up to the tourist center in RMNP and experiment with anoxia :)
 
Actually, I would second the move to change the DATE to either spring or autumn. That way, there would be many more potentially good locations around the world (not just the USA). I was going to vote for NYC next, but in winter...it's just not on for us, much as we dearly want to go back there and see more of it.

Other than that, La Nouvelle-Orléans.
 
i think we should go outside the usa, or at least very far south. but not texas [shudder]
if i'm going to spend money i don't have, i want it to be on something i'll really like.

Sorry guys, but NYC is way, way too big for me to cope with.

edited to add: if we go to New Orleans, i'll be your non-drinking buddy Luke.
 
Well, we seem to have established that, as much as people want to go to TAM, they don't want to travel there. Everyone wants it in their backyard. Never mind; I don't think I could have convinced you all to come to Leicester anyway.

The cynic in me says it's unlikely to leave the US. I agree there's lots to do in NY, but you shouldn't need lots to do.

Cheers,
Rat.
 
SAN DIEGO

Best weather in the country, lots of attractions, great food, cheap, etc... etc...
 
EvilYeti said:
SAN DIEGO

Best weather in the country, lots of attractions, great food, cheap, etc... etc...
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...and only minutes from Tijuana.
 
jj- you're talking to a man who once took a (rented) Lincoln Continental up Pike's Peak and over the Peaks highway (in July- I'm not totally loopy).

Actually it seems to me Denver / Fort Collins is a fairly central location in the US. (In terms of travel time rather than miles). And there's all the loonies at Colorado Springs just down the road.
(Lt.Col Bidlack NOT among 'em).

Several good microbrews around there too.
 
Soapy Sam said:
Actually it seems to me Denver / Fort Collins is a fairly central location in the US. (In terms of travel time rather than miles). And there's all the loonies at Colorado Springs just down the road.
(Lt.Col Bidlack NOT among 'em).

Several good microbrews around there too.
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Boulder, perchance? I'm not sure where we'd meet, perhaps when CU is not in session? Might be a hotel problem, too, since I never needed a hotel when I was there...

Btw, somebody or other, I haven't proposed places that are very close to me. :)
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Asilomar, California.

It has the facilities. It has the rooms, it has the food, it has the scenery, it's next to Monterrey, it's a State Park instead of a commercial hotel, it's next to Big Sur, ....
 
ratcomp1974 said:
Well, we seem to have established that, as much as people want to go to TAM, they don't want to travel there. Everyone wants it in their backyard. Never mind; I don't think I could have convinced you all to come to Leicester anyway.
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You would have convinced me!

Just think of all the cool stuff you could do in Leicester!

Shopping in The Shires!

See the historic clock tower!

Dance the night away in Po Na Na!

Oh, who am I trying to kid?
 
jj- matter of perspective. From over here, Washington, Colorado and Wyoming all look kinda close together. Having driven across them, I know it's not quite true.

Actually, maybe Hal could find us some cheap USAF tents and we could go camp at the ' Springs.
 
I'd personally second the idea of Reno. There's the convention center, which would be able to handle such a crowd, and there's also the Tahoe basin, which would have great skiing.

And, Hal? Just so you know, I could volunteer, then. Hopefully, by next year, I'll have a real job.

(Of course, the way things are going, I'll probably be an O&O. God help us all...)
 
Soapy Sam said:
jj- matter of perspective. From over here, Washington, Colorado and Wyoming all look kinda close together. Having driven across them, I know it's not quite true.

Actually, maybe Hal could find us some cheap USAF tents and we could go camp at the ' Springs.
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I second that, cause it's near me.

What about march on the Platte in Nebraska? The central flyway is a truly impressive sight, and there's nice, warm weather that time of year;) (compared to pluto, anyhow).

Hmm... somewhere near maine perhaps? Would that be any help to UK JREF members? OOOr we could go to Cuba, 'cuz it's Cuba, and I've always wanted to visit a repressive communist autocracy while oggling skepchicks.

glaaahhhhh...


Where was I? Oh yeah. What about the Azores or Canary Islands? Could be nifty.
 
Joshua Korosi said:
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.
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And they have that wonderful Claes Oldenburg sculpture down by the lake. Not to mention the Gehry building at Case Western Universtity, and the Cleveland Art Museum has one section of Monet's monumental Water Lillies tryptich (the others being in St Louis & KC).
 
Hamish said:


You would have convinced me!

Just think of all the cool stuff you could do in Leicester!

Shopping in The Shires!

See the historic clock tower!

Dance the night away in Po Na Na!

Oh, who am I trying to kid?
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Don't forget the Space Centre. Now not every town has one of those and Leicester does. That alone should swing it.

What people want is to get a good lungful of smelly ally, nothing on earth could compare with a good dose of the indoor market to make you feel alive.

For entertainment a day out watching people queue to park in the shires.


Tam3 for Leicester.


:p
 
The city of the Olympic games. Where skepticism was born and flourished.

(I offer free accommodation for all attending skepchicks)
 
El Greco said:
I offer free accommodation for all attending skepchicks
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Accommodation:jaw: What sleep in your drawers?

Note for those who lack a sense of humour. Drawers as in Chest of Drawers. An item of furniture to put ones socks, pants and other such items of clothing in. As it has been jokingly remarked El Greco is a sock puppet hence humorous remark made about his drawers.
 
jj said:


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?
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Depends on the time of year. In season it does get very busy (which just goes to show what a splendid, popular metropolis it is). The weather in January isn't brilliant being mostly wet (although blue sky today!), but the weather in September/October is usually fabulous - warm, sunny, dry. And it has the benefit of being the end of season, so the hotels are quiet and susceptible to block bookings.

Besides, how do we get there, take the train, or take the bus to that forsaken bus station?
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Fly to London, take the Sleeper. If enough of you came at the same time you could practically book a whole carriage, which would be great fun!

Or South Ballahulish (sp?), the smoked trout at the pub there is quite good. You know, just north of the bridge?
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I know it. What's more, I know the guy who owns it - my other half works with him in one of his other jobs (this isn't a great claim to fame since everyone knows everyone, really). I'm sure we could get him to do some very favourable rates for such a prestigious event; the Ballachulish Hotel is a big, fancy Victorian pile.

JREF could call it "The Amazing Meeting - Braveheart Edition" :D
 
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