Okay, our official BO meetup in Columbus, Ohio is Sunday, July 22. Everyone is invited and remember, Skybus flies in for cheap - sometimes as little as $10 each way!

NOTE:
*** Updated attendee list and schedule of events can be found at Ohio Meetup - Schedule, Attendees, etc. ***

Who's going to be there?

1. Pepper
2. Ri
3. Cherie
4. Chronic & Cestmoi
5. Noumena
6. Shaunie & DragonGoddess
7. Karendawn
8. SandDanz
9. CTGMOM
10. Morsecode & DH
11. cowgirl-up
12. Jebbie74 & DH
13. explorer1118m
14. Rebecca
15. Thursday5 (?)
16. Boucl (?)
17. Apolonia (?)

And what should we do?

Obviously people coming from far away will want to stay for more than one day, but our main day will be the 22nd for those people who can only come up for one day. :D


NOTE:
*** Updated attendee list and schedule of events can be found at Ohio Meetup - Schedule, Attendees, etc. ***

Add me to the list. :)

I'm gonna look it up, but if you've got info on any RV parks there, that'd be good. I'm not sure whether or not I'll RV it or fly. I prefer RVing since you don't have to try to shove everything into little square boxes and get all your liquids in a dinky little bag to get on a damn airplane. But it might be too expensive. So I'll find an address to throw into mapquest to figure mileage, and then figure out how much gas would cost, if anyone is going to drive with me to share the cost, etc.

I will be looking for hotels near where ever we decide to meet and local bookcrossers etc... that want to hit bargain bookstores on Sat. :bananadance: :bananadance:

Okay, our official BO meetup in Columbus, Ohio is Sunday, July 22. Everyone is invited and remember, Skybus flies in for cheap - sometimes as little as $10 each way!

So...

Who's going to be there?

1. Pepper
2. Ri
3. Chronic
4.
5.
6.
7.

And what should we do?

Obviously people coming from far away will want to stay for more than one day, but our main day will be the 22nd for those people who can only come up for one day. :D

I should be able to make it unless something unexpected comes up. I'd like to stay overnight (either the Saturday or Sunday night) as it's a 4-hour drive for me and I don't relish doing that there and back in one day. So if anyone wants to split a hotel room with someone, please keep me in mind.

I'm planning on being there!

Depending on a lot of different factors (price being the main one) I might be open to sharing a hotel room with someone Sunday night and going home on Monday.

I know I'd rather not take Saturday off Target... and I'd rather not take Monday off Target either, but I could probably take it off my main job and that would give me until 3 PM or so on Monday...

Why are you assuming that bookstores won't be part of what we want to do on Sunday?

:blush: oops I guess I just got ahead of myself :waves:

the thumbscrews are being applied.... :rolleyes:

Yup, and I'll get Ann working on you from the other side too. *heh* :lol:


So ummm Pepper, so that we're all staying at the same place, are you gonna post hotel info and such, perhaps try to get a group rate if enough of us are going?

I did a prelim set of numbers for taking the RV, which of course would save me on hotel since RV parks are usually only $30 a night. And it'd be $240 one way in gas!! Assuming it's still at $3.00 a gallon! :whip:

I used an addy of 800 E. Main Street in Columbus to figure the mileage, which came out to 788 miles (12.5 hours) from Wilmington, MA. At 10 mpg and $3.00/gallon, it's $236.40 one way. Definitely NOT worth it unless I had a few other people traveling with me.

Well... I can...

If people want to give me hotel info. I'd stay for one night at most. I'm only an hour to an hour and a half away from C-bus, depending on where in C-bus we're going and if there are stupid people on 71 who decide that they should drive 2 mph faster than the cars in the slow lane and then we can't pass anyone for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and... :rant:

Sorry. :blush:

Anyway... I would so not know where to start looking for good hotel rates, but if someone finds some, I'm certainly amenable to editing my post and putting that in there.

COME!!!!!

Psst! Look at the top!

:innocent:

Heh, I was those thumbscrews she was referring to since I was all over her on IM trying to make sure she goes! :P


And yeah, if anyone who's from the area can pitch in with the names of some hotels that are central to where we'll all be meeting, that'd be ideal. So that some of us aren't on one side of the city, others on the other, etc. Then people who are driving in can find all of us hotel-ites at the bar drinking martinis!

Actually, what would be ideal is if Ri could give us hotels close to her house. :D

Then we could stay nearby... and check into group rates, etc. for those hotels and stay wherever we can get the best deal.

Just did a quick search using the same address that Cherie did and found out that it is 397 miles from my house and 6.5 hours of driving. That is very doable :bananadance: Now to hook some people into coming with me :whistle:

I'm still a big maybe at this point, it's a 13 hour drive for me, and I'll have to come by myself, because if the hubby goes, we'd have to spend like a week just visiting his famiy and that wasn't really what I had in mind! LOL! They're nice people, but we just did the family thing last year! And if he went, he'd feel obligated to go visit. So if I do come, it would probably have to be the skybus thingie, and I haven't flown since before 9/11. I'm still thinking about it, I'm just still a maybe. :)

Do y'all not want me to come? :cry:

I posted that I should be able to make it, so please add me to the list! (Or else I'll post a banana :evil: )

:lol:

There are several hotels just off 71 near the Hudson exit (near Ohio State University) or Cooke exit or Morse Rd exit. Those are all quite close to our house (a couple blocks off 71 between N. Broadway exit and Cooke exit). I'll do a little searching around while the baby is sleeping...

Of course we want ya to come Karendawn but a little whippin is fun too :rofl:

I shouldn't have a problem getting there as we usually don't have performances on Sunday, but I'll also get with CTGMOM and see what she says. :) Go ahead and add me to the list though!

ETA: IF possible I would like to come up on Saturday and stay over, but not sure how that'll work at this point since I'd need to either get a hotel room or beg Nou to let me crash on her couch or something :wink: and also due to dance season.

maybe... it's 5 hours or so away, but I'll talk to hubby about going out for the weekend ;)

Well, it looks like there are hotel rooms available at several hotels within 3-4 miles of our house that are less than $50 a night, taxes included, without any kind of group discount. If we had several rooms, this may get cheaper still. Uh, I guess that Columbus doesn't really have the $$ of a "real" vacation destination! :lol:

Rodeway Inn North
2 star rating
6125 Zumstein Drive, Columbus, OH 43229 Map
3.5 Miles North of 302 chatham rd 43214

Travelodge Columbus
2 star rating
6121 Zumstein Drive, Columbus, OH 43229 Map
3.5 Miles North of 302 chatham rd

Days Inn Columbus North
2 star rating
1212 E.Dublin-Granville Rd., Columbus, OH 43229 Map
3.5 Miles Northeast of 302 chatham rd

actually, I just remembered... we do have a dance performance on Saturday evening in Madison, IN so I'll probably have to come up Sunday morning. :(

I just updated the attendance list. :whistle:

No. You're coming.

Planes aren't any scarier than they were before 9/11.

:D

I'm sorry! I missed your post! I want you to come!

Please don't post the bananas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm talking to another close friend of mine who I corrupted into being a BC'er to see if she can swing coming with me to meet ya'll. We've got another friend up there in OH we'd probably see on Friday, then hook up with you guys who are there so far, on Saturday. IF we come, still tentative, 'kay? Trying, but still tentative!

And of course you will want to have live swaps, for the activity list, yes? :pirate:

would shaunie want to play board games with morsie and mr. morsie (if we manage to get ourselves un-tenativized :rolleyes: )?

Yea! This is really shaping up into something great! I can't wait for some live swaps! I'm going to start reading some goodies now especially for them!

It's always possible, if we have time!

Trust me... Shaunie will be there... even if she doesn't know it yet! :shedevil:

And I talked to CTGMOM, she's pretty much a definite go as well! :bananadance:

Sand is trying to talk me into going. :whip: Who's going to pay for my gas and my hotel room? Plus who's going to watch my kids? :P

you can drive up Saturday and stay with me & then ride from there up with me & Laura... then stay Sunday night at my place before heading back home. :angel:

Karen if hubby doesnt want to go you can always drive with me and whoever else.

hubby wants to go - at least I think he does :rolleyes:

And, I just got approval to take that Monday off work
so now I just need to figure out hotel details
maybe a nice B&B so it could be a romantic trip for us and a fun trip for me

I have work approval as well... still waiting to find out on the friend, that might not be so quick lol!

And how exactly would you get me there Sand? Kansas is a bit out of your way isn't it? LOL!

Okay...I ran a hotels.com search for hotels near Ri. Since Ri lives fairly close to OSU, the good news is that it IS NOT the middle of football season!

I've put togther the list 2 ways: Pages 1-4 are sorted by distance to Ri and pages 4-8 are sorted by price.

Link to Hotel Info (PDF)

Is the meet-up going to be at Ri's house?
I'm so confused :wacko: