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Date:         Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:38:20 -0800
Reply-To:     Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: DC area Vanagon party saturday
Comments: To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To:  <5hbed6$9tr2qp@smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net>
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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 > > > **************************************************************** > 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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