I know this is WAY in advance, but I wanted to make sure that everyone who wanted to would have time to save up money and get time off work, as well as perhaps work out carpools and hotel-room sharing.
Anyway. Well. The weekend of August 4-6, Satan will be up in Columbus visiting me. I figured that would be the perfect time to hold a DopeFest, seeing as how we’d both love to meet (or see again, as the case may be) a lot of the Dopers in surrounding states. I’ve already asked around about this, and gotten a decent response, so I figured I’ll make a go of it, if anyone else is up for it.
I live near Ohio State’s campus, so here are some nearby hotels. You can call around for rates.
That’s about all I can think of right now. I’m also not sure where I’d actually be holding the meetings–it depends both on where everyone is staying and on what y’all feel like doing, so feel free to offer input. I know the area quite well, so I could tell you what good bars and restaurants are nearby.
Keep those maybes coming! I know it’s hard to say definitely yes or no yet, but I wanted to make sure that everyone had time to plan. I’ll make sure this thread doesn’t die, too.
Well, all my plans are soft until a few days beforehand, so I’m gonna be a maybe, but I’ll keep my eyes on the planning, and you can probably expect to see me as long nothing ground breaking comes up. Although I expect to have alot of changes upcoming, so we’ll wait and see.
I’ll chime in with a “maybe”–Columbus is four hours or so from Lexington. That’s right after I start my third year rotations, but I might be able to get away.
I hate to change your plans now, but I wanted to remind you that I’ll be driving through the midwest on my way from Minneapolis down here to Sanibel, and my time schedule’s flexible enough that I could make it up to Columbus for a day or two. My plan is to drive from Minneapolis to St. Louis, see relatives for 3-5 days, drive to Cincinnati, stay about 2-3 days and see friends, and then drive down here. The thing is, I can’t pin down exact dates for a while. The whole thing depends on when my grandparents are moving down from Minneapolis - see, I’ve bought Grandpa’s Celica, and will be driving it down with some of their stuff, with my mom and uncle. But we don’t know exactly when all this can take place, and Mom wouldn’t be too happy sitting around in a hotel in Cincinnati or Columbus for 5 days just to wait for the weekend. I can tell you that this will probably be occuring mid to late July, so if I need to be in Columbus on a weekend, it’d be the 15th or 22nd. If that’s doable for anyone, let me know, and I will do whatever I can in my power to be in Cincinnati/Columbus at that date. But no promises for the moment, OK? I’ll know more by the end of June after I return from France.
Flypsyde
xploder
Katt
MeanJoe
Jeannie and Mr. Jeannie
Cristi (and, I assume, Mr. Cristi?)
pipefitter
Omni
DoctorJ (that RULES–I’ve always wanted to meet you)
Definites:
Drain Bead (duh)
Satan
UncleBeer
Sucellus
Falcon
C’mon, everyone. Let’s make this bigger than Spiffled! Plus, we can have just as much drunken debauchery and it’ll be cheaper than Vegas!
I really, really, really wanna go but I don’t know if it’s even within the realm of possibility. I’ll do my best 'cuz I wanna meet Drainy and Satan and OncleBiere and Flypy and Falconionionian!
Put me on the penciled-in list. I don’t think Nursedec will attend, though. I drove to Toledo to meet the Great Carbonated One and Columbus is just about as far.
