Mr. Wiggin, if you’re planning on swinging by southwest Pennsylvania, I can show you some beautiful hiking spots. Also, Pittsburgh hosts the 3 Rivers Arts Festival (and drought-prevention ritual) in June, if you’re interested. For that matter, I might even be able to wangle you an introduction to a science fiction writer (no, not Orson Scott Card. Sorry).
CJ
So you’ll be in Ann Arbor. Great. I’ll try and pop up for a visit while yer there. I’m only 45 minutes from the Cranksters.
Hamadryad, thank ye kindly for the invite. I’m haven’t yet asked her, but my aunt lives near the DC area and I’ll probably be staying for a few days as I explore the city. If I do travel further South than DC, I’d love to stop by and say hi.
cjhoworth, I may just take you up on that offer. Well, both offers actually. I’d love to meet whatever mystery author you’re refering to and I could definitely use a place to stay between OH and NY. Thanks.
UncleBeer, that makes you, cranky, kyla and quix. It’s a mini-dopefest!
At this point, I plan on staying the night at these cities (in no particular order):
Madison, WI
Ann Arbor, MI (CrankyAsAnOldMan)
Oxford, OH
New York City, NY (Pucette)
Hanover, NH (Andygirl)
Baltimore, MD (Nacho4Sara)
Washington, DC
Southwest PA (cjhoworth)
To everyone on the list above, thank you so much for letting me stay the night. I’ll be starting out about the 24th of June and so I should be hitting most of the above, up to the East Coast, within the first week.
If your plans have changed and you can no longer let me stay for the night, I completely understand. Just let me know and I’ll work around it. If you see I’ll be in the area and just want me to stop as I’m passing through, that’s completely doable. We’ll have lunch…or dinner…or that new meal between breakfast and brunch.
If you’re some random new person and want to offer a place to stay for the night, then thank you. I’ll keep it in mind. This list is far from complete. Bobkitty and Skerri have both offered their place for the night down south and I may just take them up on it if I plan on going South and swinging around to Texas.
I’d like to finalize plans within the next week so that anyone who is providing board can have plenty of notice. Thank you all.
If ya come through the middle of Oklahoma, you’re welcome to a place on my big comfy couch in Stillwater.
You and Andygirl let me know what day you’ll be in Hannover and I’ll pop on over (it’s only about 2 hours away).
Eonwe, watch for an update in about a week. I should have some semblence of a schedule up at that point.
Arden Ranger, thank you very much. If I plan on hitting Austin, Stillwater would be a great place to stop off on my way back home.
Hi everyone. Or…you know…the two people still reading this thread.
Here is my travel schedule as I know it now.
25 Tue OK
26 Wed TX
27 Thurs TX
28 Fri MS
29 Sat GA
30 Sun GA
1 Mon ???
2 Tue DC
3 Wed DC
4 Thurs DC
5 Fri MA
6 Sat MA
7 Sun MA
8 Mon NH
9 Tue NH
10 Wed NH
11 Thurs NY
12 Fri NY
13 Sat NY
14 Sun NY
15 Mon ???
16 Tue OH
17 Wed OH
18 Thurs OH
19 Fri MI
20 Sat MI
21 Sun IL
22 Mon IL
23 Tue WI
24 Wed KS
Ender, if you still need a place around DC, my apartment will be available on the nights of the 2nd and 3rd. You’d have to sleep on the floor, but there are two and soon to be three empty bedrooms, so you can take up the whole floor if you wish. I’m in Fair Lakes, which is about 30-40 minutes outside of town, depending on traffic.
Apparently you’re departing tomorrow. How deep into Texas are you going to get?
Have a good time Ender! I was there when auntie em lent him her copy of Roadfood! If you do end up staying with Dopers keep us advised of your progress.
All those places that I listed I already have people set up to stay with be them friends family or dopers. So thank you Geobabe, but I won’t be needing a place.
Sorry, I realized after I submitted the list, I didn’t give cities, Ringo. Here’s the list of cities:
Stillwater, OK
Austin, TX
Indianola, MS
Atlanta, GA
Washington, DC
Boston, MA
Hanover, NH
Harlem, NYC
Oxford, OH
Ann Arbor, MI
Chicago, IL
Madison, WI
Baker, funny you should mention it. I just created a webpage tonight where I’ll be writing about my travels and putting up pictures. You can see it here:
http://fff.fathom.org/pages/enderw24/
Yes, there’s next to nothing on this site right now. I’m going to add stuff after I’m done packing tonight and it will be a progressive work over the next four weeks.
I’ve got an Ender in my house!
Of course, the first thing he gets is my son arguing with me at the door :rolleyes:. If he’d gotten here when he said he was, it would have been a more peaceful entrance. But nooooo… 
Anyway, we had dinner and now settle down to watch ST:TNG. 
ok, that’s weird.
I posted the above over an hour ago, the thread list still hs Ender as the last poster and it didn’t bump to page one.
OK, so this is the July 4th weekend you’ll be here?
I’m so happy you found digs! Who are you going to stay with?
[sub]still feeling bad that she couldn’t give Ender a place to stay…[/sub]
I’ll be staying with a friend of a friend. Or a friend. Somewhere in between I suppose.
Anyway, tell me when and where you guys wanna meet and I’ll be glad to do it. Perhaps Saturday night would work. I’ll leave it to anyone interested to work something out.
Oh, and Geobabe, I should be at your birthday party. Well, at least I plan to.
Excellent! I put you on the email list for the directions I sent out this week. If you didn’t get the email, or if you need more directions, let me know.