RE: East Coast Conference

I would prefer to have the conference at the same location
each year and have it more centrally located (literally) 
I do not attend Common for the local attractions.
Being centrally located makes it easier on the East Coast
and West Coast travelers alike.

ND, SD, NE, KS, OK, MN, IA, MO AR are fairly close to being
located between East and West coasts and would eliminate the
4 hour flights.
TX and LA are too far south for North East and North West
travelers.

Allen

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I would like Atlantic City - can drive there.

Rebecca Perdue, Systems Programmer
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message: 1
date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:45:56 -0400
from: rob@xxxxxxxxx
subject: Re: Conference locations in the East

I go to conferences for the educational content.  That IS
the primary 
issue.  I don't get some spam from someone hosting a "me
too" conference 
in Orlando with free passes for  the family to the
attraction(s) of their 
choice and say "Man, I've got to go there."  I do often take
the family, 
but it doesn't matter if the event was in Las Vegas or
Rochester MN.

Now, if I can drive someplace reasonably I find that
attractive.  I do not 

like flying.  No fear of flying just:
- the feel like you're being herded like cattle
- driving to airports
- having to arrive hours early
- checking luggage
- rent a car hassles and expense
- the big guy with the rubber gloves
- having your luggage full of clean underwear inspected by
someone who 
just inspected someone else's luggage full of dirty
underwear
- having that puddle jumper flight delayed 6 hours when you
could have 
driven home in less time.
- paying for a flight from Rochester only to get put on a
bus to 
Minneapolis.
- being definitely not overweight, and twice being asked to
move to a 
different seat to help balance the load in one of those
puddle jumpers
- putting my wife at one end of the plane, me at the other,
and my 
preschool child somewhere in the middle.
- cancellations after you've checked baggage and can't get
to medicine, 
toothpaste, etc
- having to check the firearms
Although I had no problems at all simply taking my
leatherman tool with 
knife off of my belt, placing it in my carry on and passing
that through 
the xray machine.  I did leave it in the carry on and not
back on my belt 
until I landed though.

Rob Berendt