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Conan The Librarian wrote:

On May 4, 4:01 pm, jeff wrote:


i've lost track of who's where when. so when are you guys in the area?
just in case...how about copying me with details. i'll be somewhere
with a couple other fishermen on or around a lake in eastern tenn. and
they may want to visit hazel, but not sure. ... i think the wolf gets in
thursday...we're to meet saturday at 11 in robbinsville.


I'll be arriving on Sunday the 13th, if the cricks don't rise,
etc. I've got reservations at Elkmont campground on the TN side for
Wed.-Sat. morning, but I'm planning to use it as my base of operations
the whole time (they don't take reservations any earleir in the
season).

Wolfgang is supposed to arrive Thursday I think. Wayne said he'll
be arriving Wednesday (is that right, Wayne?).

It'd be way cool if we could get a nano-clave together on Friday
before I head out Saturday.


Chuck Vance


i'm not in charge of events until friday or saturday... i'll be over
near one of the lakes in eastern tenn from sunday until friday or early
saturday at some point... meeting wolf on saturday in robbinsville. if i
leave the lake on friday, i'll head over to elkmont and look for y'all.

jeff

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jeff wrote:

i'm not in charge of events until friday or saturday... i'll be over
near one of the lakes in eastern tenn from sunday until friday or early
saturday at some point... meeting wolf on saturday in robbinsville. if i
leave the lake on friday, i'll head over to elkmont and look for y'all.

Okey dokey. I expect we'll be on the water somewhere in the general
vicinity. ;-) Seriously, I don't know if Wolfgang wants to go chase
brookies or just whatever is nearby. We could hike up the Little River
trail from the campground (I'm not sure if there are brookies up there,
but there are definitely rainbows), or head back towards Tremont and go
up Lynn Camp (supposed to be some brookies up there), or head over to
Bradley Fork ... or ... you get the idea. :-)


Chuck Vance (so much water, so little time)

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Looks like I'll be "expelled" from my quarters in Tenn on the
18th...(frankly, the kindness and tolerance of allowing me to stay until
then is inspiring and undeserved g), so give me some idea how and
where to find you fellers on Friday... i'd like to meet another of the
texan variety...though Big Dale is a mighty tough act to follow.

jeff

Conan The Librarian wrote:
jeff wrote:

i'm not in charge of events until friday or saturday... i'll be over
near one of the lakes in eastern tenn from sunday until friday or
early saturday at some point... meeting wolf on saturday in
robbinsville. if i leave the lake on friday, i'll head over to elkmont
and look for y'all.


Okey dokey. I expect we'll be on the water somewhere in the general
vicinity. ;-) Seriously, I don't know if Wolfgang wants to go chase
brookies or just whatever is nearby. We could hike up the Little River
trail from the campground (I'm not sure if there are brookies up there,
but there are definitely rainbows), or head back towards Tremont and go
up Lynn Camp (supposed to be some brookies up there), or head over to
Bradley Fork ... or ... you get the idea. :-)


Chuck Vance (so much water, so little time)

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"Jeff" wrote in message
ink.net...
Looks like I'll be "expelled" from my quarters in Tenn on the
18th...(frankly, the kindness and tolerance of allowing me to stay until
then is inspiring and undeserved g), so give me some idea how and where
to find you fellers on Friday... i'd like to meet another of the texan
variety...though Big Dale is a mighty tough act to follow.

jeff

Conan The Librarian wrote:
jeff wrote:

i'm not in charge of events until friday or saturday... i'll be over
near one of the lakes in eastern tenn from sunday until friday or early
saturday at some point... meeting wolf on saturday in robbinsville. if i
leave the lake on friday, i'll head over to elkmont and look for y'all.


Okey dokey. I expect we'll be on the water somewhere in the general
vicinity. ;-) Seriously, I don't know if Wolfgang wants to go chase
brookies or just whatever is nearby. We could hike up the Little River
trail from the campground (I'm not sure if there are brookies up there,
but there are definitely rainbows), or head back towards Tremont and go
up Lynn Camp (supposed to be some brookies up there), or head over to
Bradley Fork ... or ... you get the idea. :-)


Chuck Vance (so much water, so little time)

YEE HAW! We fixin' to have us a chump-o-ree! :)

Brookies, browns, rainbows, carp.....hike, sit, jump up and down and bark
like a chicken.....whatever. It's all good.

I only wish that I could give y'all a firm ETA to help facilitate logistics.
My problem is......in a word.....Chicago. If you've ever driven through it,
you know. If not, I'll explain in detail later. For now, suffice it to say
that deciding what time to leave here on Wednesday (the available options
have been narrowed down to 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00,
9:00, 10:00 or 11:00 p.m.) or Thursday (12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, or 4:00
a.m.), and whether to make a 200 mile detour around that ugly mother-****er
or put the pedal to the metal and blast a hole through it has given me a
case of the fantods.

The good news is that the dithering is more pressure than I can stand for
long......a firm decision (subject, of course, to the vagaries of chance in
a universe that did, after all, elect two bushes to national office for a
combined total of three terms.....yeah, that's worth a moment's thought)
will be arrived at by the weekend. I figure my driving time to be somewhere
in the neighborhood of 13 hours. Route, departure time, rest stops and
incidentals are, at this point, all flexible enough to accommodate
requirements at the end of the road. Advise me.....somebody.....please.

Wolfgang

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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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Route, departure time, rest stops and incidentals are, at this point, all
flexible enough to accommodate requirements at the end of the road.
Advise me.....somebody.....please.

Leave so that you either go through Chicago before 4pm or after 7pm but
before 10pm. The Cubs are out of town so the Kennedy will just be suffering
it's normal over capacity traffic. However the White Sox are at home against
the Yankees to the area around the Dan Ryan expressway is going to be AFU
more so than normal and then of course the freeking construction on the
Bishop Ford Section once you clear the Sox's stadium.

Get off at North Ave and cut over to Lakeshore drive. Go past the museums
before cutting back over to I-90/94 and take the Chicago Skyway/Indiana Toll
Road to I-65.

Some destruction in Indiana but not much but some stuff on I-74 going into
Ohio so take I-65 through Indiana and KY to TN. Exit at Briley Parkway on
I-65 and take that East to I-40 to Knoxville and follow the signs to
Townsend. There was construction on both I-65 in KY and I-75 in KY but I
believe the I-65 variety is a bit more tolerable.

You have my cell phone number

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"Conan The Librarian" wrote in message
oups.com...

Wayne said he'll
be arriving Wednesday (is that right, Wayne?).

yessiree.

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Jeff wrote:

Looks like I'll be "expelled" from my quarters in Tenn on the
18th...(frankly, the kindness and tolerance of allowing me to stay until
then is inspiring and undeserved g), so give me some idea how and
where to find you fellers on Friday... i'd like to meet another of the
texan variety...though Big Dale is a mighty tough act to follow.

I'm definitely no BD, but I've been told that I'm pleasant enough to
be around. And I'll be bringing some of the Blanco Brewing Company's
finest, so that should make me even nicer to hang with. ;-)

OK, so if we can get Wolfgang to agree to a time to arrive, and
Wayne K., then we could have us a regular soiree. :-) If folks want, I
can plan to hang out at the campground Friday a.m., until we get all the
suspects rounded up. Then we can hike up the Little River trail or head
out to some other water.


Chuck Vance

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Wolfgang wrote:

YEE HAW! We fixin' to have us a chump-o-ree! :)

You sound almost like a Texan. :-)

Brookies, browns, rainbows, carp.....hike, sit, jump up and down and bark
like a chicken.....whatever. It's all good.

I expect we could do all of the above (except maybe the carp).

I only wish that I could give y'all a firm ETA to help facilitate logistics.
My problem is......in a word.....Chicago. If you've ever driven through it,
you know. If not, I'll explain in detail later. For now, suffice it to say
that deciding what time to leave here on Wednesday (the available options
have been narrowed down to 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00,
9:00, 10:00 or 11:00 p.m.) or Thursday (12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, or 4:00
a.m.), and whether to make a 200 mile detour around that ugly mother-****er
or put the pedal to the metal and blast a hole through it has given me a
case of the fantods.

The good news is that the dithering is more pressure than I can stand for
long......a firm decision (subject, of course, to the vagaries of chance in
a universe that did, after all, elect two bushes to national office for a
combined total of three terms.....yeah, that's worth a moment's thought)
will be arrived at by the weekend. I figure my driving time to be somewhere
in the neighborhood of 13 hours. Route, departure time, rest stops and
incidentals are, at this point, all flexible enough to accommodate
requirements at the end of the road. Advise me.....somebody.....please.

I'll give it a shot. I have a similar problem in that I can either
drive through Dallas (the most direct route) or go around it via state
roads. The positive for going through the Big D is that it's interstate
all the way (and a speed limit of 70). The negative is that it's
interstate all the way. :-}

At the very least, why don't you plan to be at Elkmont on Friday
a.m. If all goes well, we'll have Wayne and Jeff also arriving then,
and we can do some serious damage to whatever water is within driving
distance.

To say nothing about the damage we'll do to our knees and livers.


Chuck Vance

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Conan The Librarian wrote:
Jeff wrote:

Looks like I'll be "expelled" from my quarters in Tenn on the
18th...(frankly, the kindness and tolerance of allowing me to stay
until then is inspiring and undeserved g), so give me some idea how
and where to find you fellers on Friday... i'd like to meet another of
the texan variety...though Big Dale is a mighty tough act to follow.


I'm definitely no BD, but I've been told that I'm pleasant enough to
be around. And I'll be bringing some of the Blanco Brewing Company's
finest, so that should make me even nicer to hang with. ;-)

OK, so if we can get Wolfgang to agree to a time to arrive, and Wayne
K., then we could have us a regular soiree. :-) If folks want, I can
plan to hang out at the campground Friday a.m., until we get all the
suspects rounded up. Then we can hike up the Little River trail or head
out to some other water.


Chuck Vance

ok...i'll plan on leaving the comforts, warmth, pleasantness, and
ho****ershowerstoverefrigeratorcuisine&wine at a good friend's lakeside
retreat early am friday and try to arrive at elkmont by 8 am. need i
say...your beer better be properly chilled and damn good. g looking
forward to finally meeting one of roff's librarians... um...how do i
locate y'all? will you have steerhorns on your vehicle, wearing ten
gallon and boots, playing lyle lovett or townes van zandt...g

jeff

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jeff wrote:

ok...i'll plan on leaving the comforts, warmth, pleasantness, and
ho****ershowerstoverefrigeratorcuisine&wine at a good friend's lakeside
retreat early am friday and try to arrive at elkmont by 8 am. need i
say...your beer better be properly chilled and damn good. g looking
forward to finally meeting one of roff's librarians... um...how do i
locate y'all? will you have steerhorns on your vehicle, wearing ten
gallon and boots, playing lyle lovett or townes van zandt...g

All of the above, plus I'll be driving a bookmobile. ;-) Look for
me in the (riverside) G or H section of the campground (cross the river
and bear right after you enter the campground). I drive a late-model,
light-colored Mazda Tribute (mini-SUV).


Chuck Vance (and don't worry about the beer, it'll be nice and cold)