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On 4 Jan 2005 at 20:48, Steven Ayres wrote: > JimA=> How about somewhere in the Great Lakes region. > > From where I sit, that's East Coast, give or take a day. > > You want a central location? Salina, Kansas. Kansas would be fine with me, but I don't know anything about it. We'd like to find someplace pleasant, however. The sun at the Parma Motor-Vue was brutal, but Hershey was wonderful. Of course the weather is not always predictable. Colorado might be more interesting. I keep coming back to Wisconsin, however. It's not far from central (east- west, at least) and the university here has lots of dorms which they rent out to groups at what I assume to be very reasonable rates in the summer. We have lots of grass, trees, lakes and generally beautiful weather in the late summer. Madison is a medium sized town with incredible cultural variety. We have ethnic restaurants of almost every conceivable origin, from Afgan and asian, to Mediterranean, to Nepali, to Zanzabarian (is that a word???) And, yes, there's the Essen Haus with plenty of good German food and beer, as well as several local brew pubs, and a few small but excellent local breweries that give tours. I'm afraid I don't really know where our Ronald McDonald house is, but I DO know that Cindy Crawford comes back here periodically to stump for it, since her brother was treated for some kind of cancer at the University hospital a number of years ago. Of course I can't promise that Cindy will visit our Invasion, but it's probably more likely than a Tsunami in this part of the world. ;-) -- Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~