Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Heading for LibertyCon
Miss D., our friend Alma Boykin and I are on the road, heading for the LibertyCon science fiction and fantasy convention in Chattanooga this weekend. It's a long drive, about 15 hours plus stops, so we're taking it relatively easy. That still beats dealing with the TSA and flying cattle class - and the cost works out pretty much the same.
This is going to be an interesting LibertyCon. It's moved to the Marriott Hotel, after many years at the Chattanooga Choo-Choo hotel in that city, which was never a very satisfactory venue. I don't know if it'll stay at the Marriott, or move somewhere else next year. I guess that's up to the organizers. For a while it wasn't certain whether we'd have a LibertyCon at all this year, so I'm glad they made it happen in the end.
This year Miss D. and I are presenting a minimum number of panels and discussions, as we're both pretty tired and need a break. We're treating this extended road trip as a chance to relax, meet up with friends, and generally recharge our batteries.
Blogging will be intermittent while we're at LibertyCon. I may have a chance to put up a number of posts and "stage" them for automatic publication at intervals, but that won't happen every day. At times like that, please amuse yourselves with the blogs and bloggers listed in my sidebar. They write good too!
Peter
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Chattanooga a great city in beautiful surroundings. Check out Lookout Mountain and Point Park, the Chickamauga Battlefield Museum, Cloudland Canyon State Park (GA), and the Ocoee River area east of Cleveland.
Have a good time.
Peter, I'm having to miss LC this year for personal reasons, so most sorry to miss y'all.
It's my understanding that when the Choo Choo left LC in the lurch last year they had no venue for 2018 and it wasn't until around Christmas that a deal was struck with the Marriott. And to my knowledge it's a one off. The LC committee has a different permanent venue in mind for next and following years. But double check with Brandy on that.
It's about an hour's drive south into Georgia, but I can highly recommend the Chickamauga Battlefield Museum for one of the best displays of Civil War era firearms in my experience.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Cattle caring in tomorrow afternoon. See you then...
I really want to attend LC at some point. I've been doing DragonCon, and a couple minor conventions, for a while now.
Couldn't go this year, dang it. Hope you both have fun, and get to relax and unwind! :-)
Just a quick note. The Apple purchase to let you use that proprietary ebook formatting software really paid off with Cochrane's Co. That was an e-book very nearly as pleasing to the reader's eye as a good print copy.
Nice work, Mr. Grant!
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