Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 07:39:17 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Pechter <pechter@pechter.dyndns.org> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: BSDcon East Message-ID: <200003291239.HAA03101@bg-tc-ppp122.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <bulk.34055.20000328173245@hub.freebsd.org> from freebsd-chat-digest at "Mar 28, 2000 05:32:45 pm"
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Brad Knowles writes: > > At 5:28 PM -0700 2000/3/27, Brett Glass wrote: > > > If one wanted to do the convention near DC, Baltimore would be a > > good choice because there are lots of bargain airfares and a > > glut of hotel rooms in the area. Yup... and the Baltimore Inner Harbor area has quite a nice collection of tourist attractions... including a slick Aquarium, Science Museum, Camden Yard, the B&O railroad museuum and a ton of hotels right in a close area. > > Baltimore is quite a bit cheaper than the DC area, but is also > close enough that you can still consider flying into Dulles or > Washington National and making the drive, taking the bus, or taking > the train to make that final connection. > > Finally, for those people who might be doing some vacation in and > around the time, it's closer to both DC (if you want to do > sightseeing) and the Virginia/Maryland/Delaware/New Jersey coast -- > only about three hours away from Long Island New Jersey (where a > friend of mine owns a beach house ;-). > Long Beach Island... 8-) > > If you're serious about a BSDCon on the East Coast, I think that > the Baltimore/DC area has more going for it than any other I can > think of, and has fewer drawbacks. > I think this would be an excellent place... I don't have a good idea as to how large a place would be needed. In addition to the large number of hotels, there is a fairly large conference center there as well... My last trip down they were holding a tow truck convention with towing operators from all across the country. All the free parking areas were loaded with tow trucks. Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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