Darn!  I was afraid it would be Saturday.  First I
miss John Brown's Buses and now this.  Company party
in Richmond that evening and other scheduled
activities during the day.  Next time, folks.

Stephen

--- Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU> wrote:

> So, it looks like we're on in Rock Creek Park on
> Saturday, at 1:00!
>
> Tom's lined up the site and sent directions - here
> they are again, in case
> you weren't paying attention:
>
> Picnic Area 10 in Rock Creek Park,
>
http://www.nps.gov/rocr/planyourvisit/upload/ROCRmap1.pdf
>
> Note the roads that are closed weekends are marked
> in yellow.  If site 10 is
> taken, we'll head down the road towards site 9, and
> take the first one we
> come to that's available.
>
>
> So, who's coming?  Besides, I assume, Tom and Kim
> and me, that is.  Karl,
> are you coming into the big city for this?  Anyone
> coming from Pennsylvania,
> from the Buses-by-the-Depot crowd?  Anyone out there
> in the Richmond area,
> Baltimore, the eastern shore?
>
>
> Now one of my vanagon friends has told me that while
> men are able to line up
> party sites and bring their vans, they aren't so
> good at thinking about the
> details of parties.  I think he's full of it,
> myself, but just in case,
> here's a few suggestions:
>
> -       bring some food or drink to share, please!
> We all like food.
> Alcohol is not permitted in the park, so I assume
> you know from long vanagon
> experience how to handle that.  But we will be
> driving out of this party and
> on to our evening events, so use your judgment...
>
> -       shall we have an informal and very low-cost
> holiday gift exchange?
> If there are enough people, such things can be
> pretty amusing.  Funny gifts,
> vanagon gifts, edible gifts, for whichever holiday
> you prefer - the Ides of
> December, the second night (or first day, if you
> prefer) of Chanukah,
> nine-days-to-finish-your-shopping,
> six-days-till-the-winter-solstice,
> ten-days-till-Kwanzaa,
> 766-more-days-of-shrub-in-the-White-House, anything
> you like!  Re-gifted items are fine.  The less you
> spend, the better.  The
> funnier, the better.  Or the tastier the better.
> Wrap it up (a brown bag is
> fine), in case surprise seems in order!
>
>
> Please come, folks!
>
>
>
>
>
> Joy
>
>
>
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> Joy Hecht
> now living in a real house in northern Virginia
> and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon
> now living in the driveway and resting after two and
> a half years
> lugging Joy and her stuff around...
>
> For musings about life traveling in the van or
> living in one place:
> http://www.joyhecht.net
>
>
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