I'm good to go for those dates as I'm on leave. So depending on what 
everyone else can do, I'm definately in. Hopefully we can work this 
out as it's long overdue in my opinion.

                          Mark

-- "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2@comcast.net> wrote:
>From the comments thus far, Thanksgiving does not seem to be a good 
time for
this event.  It's also not a good time to be traveling.  PTM has 
events the
last three weekends in October, as well as Thanksgiving and the two 
weeks
following.  November is wide open from the museum perspective.  I am 
away
the weekend of November 9-10-11-12.
Since there is planning required on this end to get things together, 
the
earlier we select a date the better it will be.  So I'll go out on a 
limb
and propose November 16-17-18-19.  The museum is open all four days, 
the
weather is generally tolerable, air and highway traffic is lighter 
than
average, and the foliage is gone.

But if the date works, you'll still need to decide what you want to 
do.  As
Derrick says, we live here and can do any of it any time.  It may be 
that we
can have concurrent field trips if not everyone wants to do all the 
same
things.

Thanks,
Ed