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- From: gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
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- > >If you're coming all the way from Hawaii, does it really matter?
- > > --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
- >
- > Sure. Ashville has a nostalgic allure that might cause me to make the
- > effort. Raleigh doesn't (no offense, Raleighans [or whatever]).
- > mem
-
- The biggest attraction of Raleigh is the home of -ggs, which is probably
- off-limits, unless the tc/sw is in the new Czech Republic, as she may
- well be, and a magnificent array of cemeteries on which -ggs is a living
- <authority>. Asheville is a good choice, with an airport, or
- Boone, which has a nice convention center/hotel on a mountain overlookin
- g Appalachian State U., but nearest airport is an hour away and nearest
- large airport is Charlotte, about 2 1/2 hours.
- Actually, Raleigh is not bad, though it doesn't offer a lot of
- interesting stuff, it is three hours to the beach, three hours to the
- mountains, 4 1/2 to DC, has a good airport and is pretty but hot as
- hell in July, and the -ggs mansion has six bedrooms and a big front
- veranda for the mint juleps.
- Asheville is probably the most interesting choice, but I don't have
- connections there and I don't know if anyone does. Boone I know and
- might be able to help with some arrangements.
- If it ends up anywhere in NC, my house is y'all's house on the way.
- (Mi casa es su casa)
- --ggs (who still would like to go back to Providence, for nostalgic
- reasons....)
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