A new heartland con? Re: Gen Con - a Canadian thought

3 posts ยท Nov 25 1999 to Nov 30 1999

From: Doug Evans <devans@n...>

Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 10:16:51 -0600

Subject: A new heartland con? Re: Gen Con - a Canadian thought

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> I was at mapquest checking out how long it would take to get to

Ouch! I guess I never looked too closely at exactly where ND was in relation
to PA, but now that I think about it, Lancaster is pretty much south of Ottawa
and Milwaukee is mostly west, and ND is further west. Yeah, I'll buy that it's
a 24 hr. drive. I guess we won't see Dean at ECC until the year he's got plane
fare burning a hole in his pocket.
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And, if you drop a line almost straight down from Fargo, you find you're on
your way to Lincoln.

Dean:
Any suggestions for a new center-of-the-continent convention? I finally
made it to MageCon, and must say a game group for playing in the 'wilderness'.
;->= I even forgave the irritations I mentioned in the Full Thrust game,
and the feeling of playing in a barn. Nukecon in Omaha is certainly convenient
for me, but darn small, Shauncon in KC an even worse drive for you, and the
Denver cons, while still a pleasure, especially with side trips to visit the
daughter, are still roughly the same distance as a trip to Milwaukee. Other
thoughts or suggestions?

I'm not thinking we'll be seeing a dedicated GZG-CenterCon anytime
soon...

Not with these 'wide open spaces. ;->=

The_Beast

PS Still haven't heard back from Keith. You sure he's accepting mail, Dean?

From: Dean Gundberg <dean.gundberg@n...>

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 17:49:50 -0600

Subject: RE: A new heartland con? Re: Gen Con - a Canadian thought

> The_Beast wrote:

Nope, nothing else comes to mind. If I had actually taken my wife on a
vacation in the last year like I promised and if GZG-ECC wasn't right
before our anniversary (we got married on leap day '92 so any year with a leap
day is kinda special) I'd really be trying to get to Lancaster.

> PS Still haven't heard back from Keith. You sure he's accepting

From: Michael T Miserendino <MTMiserendino@l...>

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 8:19:00 -0500

Subject: A new heartland con? Re: Gen Con - a Canadian thought

> owner-gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU at internet 11/25/99 11:13AM >>>

Fort Wayne, Indiana, home of PentaCon, is a decent midwest town that would be
somewhat central and a good place for a small con. BTW I should have all the
pics scanned in this week from the con and will have them up on the Web site
soon.

Mike