Well... How's about it?

I'm going to recommend the Bay Area though since there is so much to see here. Lots of Parks and Museums. Santa Cruz with it's boardwalk, Historic Sacramento. Maybe we could all rent a camping sight and have an outdoor sleep over. We could sit around the campfire and tell tall tales and ghost stories while we make s'mores. In the morning we could make pancakes with home made sweet butter

Jema

I’m going to hijack Jema’s post to put the date and place at the top of this thread:

Our date and place are 99% certain. (There are 9 months to go, so something strange might happen between now and then.)

Only one person said that he would make it on Friday afternoon. We emailed back and forth and decided that we would be talked out before anyone else arrived on Saturday, hence we have decided to have the MoM for only two days. Note that we will be beginning on Saturday, instead of Friday.

2010 West Coast MoM

Saturday, June 19 to Sunday, June 20

In a rural area near Healdsburg, CA

(an hour north of the Golden Gate Bridge)

The site has plenty of parking space for camping trailers and RVs. There is a grassy area for anyone who’d like to bring a tent and sleeping bag. There are motels about 10 minutes away in Healdsburg (and cheaper motels in Windsor, about 20 minutes away). Guerneville, a small town with the third highest percentage of gay and lesbian residents of any census tract in the U.S. is 15 miles (and 40 minutes by winding rural roads) away from the site. It’s another 15 miles (and 25 minutes) from Guerneville to Jenner, on the coast at the mouth of the Russian River.

The average daily high for the period is 88° and the average nightly low is 53°. These are “average” and it’s possible to have days that reach 100° or have the fog roll in from the coast and the night drop down to the low 40s. Rain is highly unlikely, though has been known to happen. (Average for the entire month of June is about a tenth of an inch.)

For further information, send a <Private Message> to Jesus. Include your regular email address to which attachments (including a PDF map to the site) can be sent. More details will be forthcoming when we get to within a couple of months of the dates.

You need to see Paolo's facebook page to see that sweet butter that Riverwind made. Honestly, it looked more like hazardous waste.

OneBallBoi (imported) wrote: Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:27 pm You need to see Paolo's facebook page to see that sweet butter that Riverwind made. Honestly, it looked more like hazardous waste.

Is that what we're calling what Riverwind makes - sweet "butter". Hmm... no thanks.

If there is a west coast MOM, I'll be there since the locations mentioned above are workable for me.

--LT

Jema and I have begun the process of planning a MoM in the North Bay, about an hour from the Golden Gate Bridge. We are shooting for sometime in late spring, after the end of the rainy season.

The tentative plan is for a site with room for tents and camping vehicles, with motels not too far away. The site is comfortable and will accommodate more people than we've had at any MoM yet.

Riverwind has family in the area and might be persuaded to join us in the West. Paolo is "considering" a trip west in the spring. Bobbie and OBB made it out to the first West Coast MoM.

We'll start a new thread for the MoM as soon as we have a date chosen for it. Start saving your pennies for a trip, probably in June.

J

JesusA (imported) wrote: Fri Aug 21, 2009 10:05 am Paolo is "considering" a trip west in the spring. Bobbie and OBB made it out to the first West Coast MoM.

If you can talk Paolo into coming, I'll try to come down from Portland.

I'll be looking for the date. Last Westcoast MoM was in October. Please give enough notice for the overworked yet underemployeed, the overworked and underpaid, and overworked and underappreciated, and overworked and overextended. And the poor planners such as myself, that when given freetime and an open schedual still never seems to have enough spare tme to do all the things that should be done.

chilli-

OK, right now, if "I" get on a plane to go to the west coast, spending probably 10 hours without a cigarette, I am assuring you of one thing - the 11 year old is coming with me so he can visit Jesus' grandson. I only intend to "go west old man" ONCE in my life! And somehow, I don't think you all want the boy around...

As for the butter picture, maybe we can talk the Nun into letting us host it on the server just ONE time...

I'll tell you what. If you can convenience Paolo to come out West for the meeting, I'll give serious consideration to attending. And if River's going to be there, I'd love to see him take another crack at that so called "butter" I've heard so much about.

I would love to meet some of the West Coast members.

EricaAnn (imported) wrote: Fri Aug 21, 2009 3:44 pm I'll tell you what. If you can convenience Paolo to come out West for the meeting, I'll give serious consideration to attending. And if River's going to be there, I'd love to see him take another crack at that so called "butter" I've heard so much about.

I would love to meet some of the West Coast members.

You don't want to really see that butter. I seriously think it was hazardous waste.

Being known for my culinary delights if I can make it out there for the west coast MOM I will make my pancakes and have real homemade butter for it.

Some of the best dishes are from a mistake that turns out to be wonderful. And like that ugly duckling that Paolo whats to post the finished product is a swan.

If I come out there, do I have to see my family? Can't I just slip in and out without them knowing?

River.