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The Road to Montana (part one)
Last year I was invited to be the Gaming Guest of Honor for 2018 at Great Falls Gaming Rendezvous in Great Falls, Montana. I accepted, and ever since had been planning my trip. I'd never been to Montana before (or the Dakotas for that matter) so there were things I surely needed to experience along the way.
There had been indications I might have a passenger to help keep me company: that turned out to not be the case after all, so I'd be driving alone. It would be a 1,300-mile round-trip, most of that along the I-90 corridor, so I'd need to plan my stops ahead of time. I'm prone to sleepiness on long drives, so it's best if I don't push too hard to cover extra miles in a day.
My first stop was Sioux City, South Dakota. It was about seven hours' worth of driving time from home, so it was a good...
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There had been indications I might have a passenger to help keep me company: that turned out to not be the case after all, so I'd be driving alone. It would be a 1,300-mile round-trip, most of that along the I-90 corridor, so I'd need to plan my stops ahead of time. I'm prone to sleepiness on long drives, so it's best if I don't push too hard to cover extra miles in a day.
My first stop was Sioux City, South Dakota. It was about seven hours' worth of driving time from home, so it was a good...
To view the rest of this post, please visit: http://billbodden.com/2018/10/22/the-...
The Road to Montana (part two)
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Waterfall in the Great Falls Holiday Inn[/caption]Once I arrived and checked in, I was greeted by a lobby full of waterfall, fake rocks, and taxidermied animals. I actually found it sort of charming. I checked in with the con folks at the pre-con party to meet them in person and confirm that I was on-site. I was pleased to finally meet Connie and Robert Thomson, with whom I'd been interacting on Facebook for a couple of years. I also met Don Walsh, co-chair and my main point of contact for arranging All The Things, and Drew Lovec, the other Co-Chair. After that, I headed off to the hotel restaurant to have some dinner. The food at this Holiday Inn turned out to be decent quality: I wouldn't regret it if I had to eat all my meals here.
Friday dawned, and I made my way to the dealer's room. I had a box of my books I needed to drop off. A local store -- Kelly's Komix -- had agreed to sell them for me in exchange for a cut. ...
To read the rest of this post, please visit: http://billbodden.com/2018/10/29/the-...
Waterfall in the Great Falls Holiday Inn[/caption]Once I arrived and checked in, I was greeted by a lobby full of waterfall, fake rocks, and taxidermied animals. I actually found it sort of charming. I checked in with the con folks at the pre-con party to meet them in person and confirm that I was on-site. I was pleased to finally meet Connie and Robert Thomson, with whom I'd been interacting on Facebook for a couple of years. I also met Don Walsh, co-chair and my main point of contact for arranging All The Things, and Drew Lovec, the other Co-Chair. After that, I headed off to the hotel restaurant to have some dinner. The food at this Holiday Inn turned out to be decent quality: I wouldn't regret it if I had to eat all my meals here. Friday dawned, and I made my way to the dealer's room. I had a box of my books I needed to drop off. A local store -- Kelly's Komix -- had agreed to sell them for me in exchange for a cut. ...
To read the rest of this post, please visit: http://billbodden.com/2018/10/29/the-...
