# Pacific Northwest Summer Dopefest! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 16, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-northwest-summer-dopefest/481622 "2009-01-16T17:49:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-northwest-summer-dopefest/481622/1 "2009-01-16T17:49:38Z")
In this thread we will hem and haw over establishing the date for this summer’s Dopefest. In early summer we will panic and scramble for a free weekend but by then it will be too late. Two of us will get together at a very large table in a location nobody really likes, and we will drink beer and wonder where everybody else is. I say we start panicking around the 3rd weekend in July. Is that good for everyone? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-northwest-summer-dopefest/481622/2 "2009-01-16T19:31:33Z")
If it takes place after Comic-Con (July 23-26), there is a decent chance the wife and I will be in the area. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-northwest-summer-dopefest/481622/3 "2009-01-16T20:19:15Z")
Hmm… third weekend in July is actually 17-18-19, so that might work. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-northwest-summer-dopefest/481622/4 "2009-02-05T21:04:07Z")
Remember, there’s still plenty of time left to procrastinate! We have scheduled our bone-numbing panic for some time in July. At that point we’ll all rush around like lunatics and wonder why we didn’t plan the Dopefest earlier. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-northwest-summer-dopefest/481622/5 "2009-02-06T00:31:51Z")
I think you have this one dialled, dude! Great job! ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-northwest-summer-dopefest/481622/6 "2009-02-06T00:36:32Z")
Whereabouts in the PNW is this not going to take place? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-northwest-summer-dopefest/481622/7 "2009-02-06T03:09:10Z")
I’d suggest that it not start out at [Ride the Ducks of Seattle](http://www.ridetheducksofseattle.com/), and then not continue to a nice steak & seafood house. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-northwest-summer-dopefest/481622/8 "2009-02-06T03:45:26Z")
Well, of course not. We’d have to plan well in advance to get reservations during the month of July. Pfft, who’s got time for that? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Harry1945](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Harry1945](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harry1945)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-northwest-summer-dopefest/481622/9 "2009-02-06T04:10:25Z")
I know…why don’t everyone come over to my place and help me get the tree branch off the top of the (much shorter) garden shed? ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-northwest-summer-dopefest/481622/10 "2009-02-06T09:02:09Z")
Is this where I complain that not ALL the PNW Dopers are in Seattle and perhaps a more central location should be chosen for the Dopefest we won’t manage to arrange or attend? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-northwest-summer-dopefest/481622/11 "2009-02-06T14:32:09Z")
If it’s in Seattle, people won’t be able to make it. If it’s somewhere else, nobody will come. 😛 (Actually, Seattle _is_ ‘more central’ to me!) ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-northwest-summer-dopefest/481622/12 "2009-02-06T14:53:03Z")
Just had better not be in or around SeaTac or the Olympic penis-ula the first 2 weeks of August, or I’m gonna have to change some reservations. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-northwest-summer-dopefest/481622/13 "2009-02-06T16:44:30Z")
Well, **SmartAleq** , we once held a PNW Dopefest in [Riverside Park in Centralia](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=riverside+park,+centralia,+washington&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=37.819897,53.613281&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=A). It’s at exit 82 — about equidistant from Seattle and Portland — and it has covered areas and picnic-barbecue facilities. Some people drove up from Oregon for that; some down from Seattle. I don’t know if there’s a better compromise location. As with any compromise, you’d pick up some people and lose others. The question is: how many people from various locations are we trying to accommodate? ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-northwest-summer-dopefest/481622/14 "2009-02-09T07:25:54Z")
Centralia’s not bad–I just avoid going to Seattle like homegrown plague. I had to inventory the Plaid Pantries up there which involved staying a week at a time, then had to go up there pretty often when I was a courier as well and the damned traffic drives me apeshit! I used to talk friends into riding up with me on deliveries so I could use the diamond lanes…