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Urgrace

Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 04:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Cool report Bookie! Did you take inchworm and Wiggles?

Will be looking forward to the next Tess & Co. RT installment.

Reader234

Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 06:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Jackie (et el) I left my heart in Texas, if found, please water, and add bluebonnets!! Much thanks!! sniff,sniff

Will be there in spirt, as always, meanwhile trying to figure out what the heck is going on here in the midwest, who ticked off Mother Nature???

Whoami

Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 06:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't know that I've officially announced my road trip in this thread. Just mentioned it in passing in other discussions.

Anyway, we are headed out to the San Diego area on July 31. Actually, we'll be staying in La Mesa at a hotel near my sis's. She's getting married the 2nd of August. Knowing my sister, I'm thinking she probably has our entire itinerary planned out, but maybe I can make the family squeeze in some time if anyone from the board wants to meet me. I think on Friday the family wants to hit Sea World, and on Sunday we want to hit the beach.

Possibly the best time would be Monday the 4th. Check out time at the hotel is noon, and our flight doesn't leave till 7:00 that night. Sis is planning on leaving sometime that afternoon I think for her honeymoon. So we may be freed up sometime then. Heck, if anything, come meet us at the airport and see us off! LOL.

Twinkie

Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 07:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey, Marm! Welcome back home! I'll call you or email you about meeting in Rochester this weekend. Have to fly it by hubby. Anyone wanting to see the Falls let me know! We know all the best things and places to do and see. And would love to open our home to all my TVCH buddies. And our axes are all dull, I swear.

Tess

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 12:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Here I am in a hotel room in Cheyenne, Wyoming. DH and Miss Sarah are sound asleep and I'm thinking I should be.

We got a much, much later start than planned on Saturday and it was so freakin hot! I am forever thankful to whomever invented air conditioning for cars! Finally we got on the road at 2:16pm CDT and the race was on! After living in MN for 25 years I was finally going to get to see Iowa for the very first time. Guess what? It looks an awful lot like southern MN. Who knew?

DH is such a pro at doing the text messaging and calling for updates while we're on the road. He's incredibly shy in person but a real trooper when I need him to get a message out while I'm speeding us down the highway. Miss Sarah was positive that as soon as we crossed out of MN we were in California already. Poor baby. I still don't think she realizes we have 3 more days of driving left.

Well, we were quite late getting to the restaurant, but the poor Worm family was even later due to the heat both outside and in their car engine. When they arrived, Charlie and Miss Sarah were at our table and I was outside watching and waiting. I knew NC as soon as I saw him come toward me with the most adorable little boy (Wiggles). What an angel child he is!! Poor little Inchworm had just about had it with this little adventure. He's cute as a button and I can't even imagine how Bookie keeps her cool with a tiny infant, a toddler and it being about 1000 degrees outside.

Miss Sarah was so over-excited to see new people and be in a new place (with a gift shop) that I about had to tie her down. Dad took her shopping after she ate her requisite 3 bites of food. Somehow, in addition to the "Love from Iowa" t-shirt she came away with a replica of a Harley. Hmmmmmm. And DH thinks I'M a pushover!

The time seemed to speed by so fast. I was worried about The Worm family driving back home in that heat. It was time to say goodbye much too soon. Bookie had even baked us some delish cookies for the road. yep, they are all gone already. If anyone is passing through Iowa, you have to meet the Bookie, NC and the boys. They are both so sweet, interesting and easy to be with. The boys are just precious and Wiggle is so well-behaved. He could teach Miss Sarah a thing or two!!

We made it to Omaha before midnight and had a good night's sleep though a short one. Again we got on the road late today. The beauty of Nebraska though lies in their 75mph speed limit on I-80.....translated in Tess-speak, that puts us at 85 mph most of the time. :) Needless to say, we arrived in Cheyenne a whole lot earlier than we did in Omaha. We immediately changed and jumped into the pool. We were the only ones there for nearly an hour which was perfect. Then I went out in search of food. Just one block from the hotel I found the most adorable old-fashioned 24 hour diner and ordered food to bring back to the hotel. We're going there for breakfast tomorrow before we head out for Salt Lake City.

Off to dreamland.

Schoolmarm

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 01:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Bookie and Tess, I am wracking my brain at where in the world you ate in Des Moines that had a gift shop AND a pig outside the restaurant!

I LOVE the BBQ at Mustards, and of course the Drake Diner is a favorite.

Twinks...I will be in Rochester Wednesday night, I think. My course goes from 9 am to about 10 pm, so I won't have much time on Thursday, Fri or Sat.

I'm looking forward to eating great BBQ at the Dinosaur again!

I should start a thread about great BBQ in great cities and quaint towns!

I will be going to Hot Springs South Dakota on the 10th for five days...yup, I'll hit it with all the Sturgous bikers again. One year, War, you will be at Sturgous and I'll get to meet you. Do you live near Long Beach? I have a conference there in 2004.

Twinkie

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 06:03 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Darn, Marm. Hubby is only off Sat and Sun. How about stopping by on your way back home?

Resortgirl

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 08:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tess, I'm so glad you got to meet The Bookies and are having a good time! Say Hi to Sarah and Charlie for me!

This place just isn't the same without all of you. It's quiet and reserved and boring!! Could Ya'll (notice I'm practicing my southern drawl so I fit it?) just move here so I can see you everyday?

2004 will be bigger and better (if that is at all possible) and this time I am really really going to take my vitamins so I can keep up!

Schoolmarm

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 01:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Twinks....I'm driving back in the middle of the night on Saturday so that I can play for church.

I might have time to stop on WEDNESDAY on the way up, though. I'll try to call you tonight, if I don't fall asleep first. This jet lag is driving me nuts!

RG....love to go next year, but I think I'll go to Munich again. ;)

Bookworm

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 02:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Marm we ate at the Machine Shed (near Living History Farms). (And by the way welcome back to the states, sounds like you had quite the adventure in Munich!)

Wiggle was really having an exceptional day when we met with Tess and Co. He is not normally so well behaved.

I haven't forgotten about the picture, the camera just hasn't made it down here to the computer.

Wargod

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 02:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bookie, kids always behave when they're around people other than their parents!

Schoolmarm

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 03:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oooh! I didn't know that the Machine Shed had a pig (or cow) outside it. That is a GREAT place to eat, and not too far from where I used to live in West Des Moines...I wasn't in the snotty part, but across the street, it was!

Bookie! I can't believe you have had so many TVCH meetings, what with giving birth recently and all!

War...do you live near Long Beach? Where the heck is Long Beach? I'm going there for a conference in Nov. 2004...maybe I'll get to meet some Californians!

Zachsmom

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 03:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I live about 1/2 hour away from Long Beach! Would be glad to meet up with you 'marm!

Whoami

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 03:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I guess San Diego/La Mesa is too far away....

Schoolmarm

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 03:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Whoo hoo...I'll plan on meeting Zachsmom (and others) in Nov of 2004! Sheesh, lots could happen by then!

Zachsmom

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 03:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Who-It's my sons 5th birthday this weekend otherwise I'd be down there in a heartbeat! We're going to <ironically>Long Beach to the Aquarium & Queen Mary on Sat, Sunday is a picinic with some of his cousins and Monday I work :(

I lived in La Mesa for a few years and I LOVE IT there!

Egbok

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 04:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Who, I live about a 2 hour drive north of San Diego and my weekend is already filled during the time you'll be here. I'm so sorry that I won't get to meet you but have a great time at your sister's wedding!

Marm, I'm about 15 minutes from Long Beach...just over the Vincent Thomas Bridge! I'd love to meet you in 2004! Keep me posted, my email addy is in my profile.

Wargod

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 09:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Marm, let me know he dates your going to Long Beach and I'll see what we can do about meeting up together.

Weinermr

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 09:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Attention ALL Southern California posters

What would you think about having a TVCH gathering some time this fall, somewhere in some location reasonably central to as many people as possible.

I would be willing to coordinate, and possibly handle some of any costs involved. We could have a meeting in a park, at a hotel, a restaurant, or wherever the group chooses.

Let me know what you think.

Spygirl

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 09:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm coming to Long Beach in October and planned to meet up with whomever was available. Is that considered southern California? I'm clueless regarding geography - plus, I've never been to California ever.

Zachsmom

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 09:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am up for it Weinermr!!!

Long Beach is considered SoCal Spy

Whoami

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 09:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Geeze Weiner, can't ya get a get-together organized by this weekend? .

Marm and Zmom, thanks for the thoughts. I guess I should have spoken up sooner, before everyone had already planned their weekends! This thing was three months away at one point. How it suddenly got to be three days away is beyond me!

Egbok

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 09:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Weinermr, of course I'd love to be a part of this gathering! What a great idea!! I'm flexible in wherever the gathering takes place but with Fall and the chill in the air <cough, cough...like 70 degrees), maybe an indoor venue might be best.

And Spy, I am looking forward to meeting you in October when you are in Long Beach, which is a part of Southen California.

Spygirl

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 09:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yay!! Okay - if it is considered southern - then how does the week/weekend of October 15 - 19th look? I'll be there from Tuesday through Monday morning!!!

Rabbit

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 10:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Isn't that the monsoon season?