[MR] "Center" of the Kingdom

Tue Apr 14 09:34:41 PDT 2009

As someone who lives in the actual District of Columbia, I'd also like to point out that if DC area traffic is a significant concern for you, you've already limited the number of events that you're willing to go to!  (Isn't that right, Theron?)  It's not just a question of whether Reidsville or Richmond or even Quantico is too far--EVERYWHERE is too far.  It took me 3 hours to get out of town on Friday, and that was leaving around 1 pm.  As a teacher, I can't usually take off early on Fridays, so I just realize and accept the fact that travelling to events is going to take either some very creative planning or some extra time in traffic.  If the event is important to me, it's worth it.  If sitting in traffic seems too much of a price to pay, then I guess I didn't really want to go to the event anyway.  (While I recognize that in SOME cases, additional travel costs are prohibitive, I do think that in most cases, people can find a way to get to
 the events that mean the most to them--whether it's skipping other events or looking for ways to reduce costs, or whatever.  MOST of the time.)  Anyway, as far as the DC trafic issue is concerned, unless the permanent site is actually IN (name your NoVa or Southern Maryland suburb), the drive isn't going to be any more prohibitive than it is for 90% of the other event sites in the universe.  

With far more knowledge of I-95 South than she ever wanted,

Dryw

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Give in to Love, or live in fear 
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--- On Tue, 4/14/09, James Barker <flonzy at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: James Barker <flonzy at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MR] "Center" of the Kingdom
To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 12:17 PM

The site used this last weekend is straight down 29 just over the boarder in
NC. From Ashburn (Dulles Airport) it took a about 4-4.5 hours leaving at the end
of rush-hour traffic but we did not have to go through DC or touch I95. If I
were still in Alexandria I would leave at a time to avoid rush-hour or holiday
traffic. Sapphire Joust takes 3 or so hours from here (going south and east vs
going south) so really it is not that huge of a time difference if you live
west/northwest of DC and Bmore.

I have to say I love the Reidsville site and I feel it is about a central a
site as we can really get when we are such a large kingdom. People on the
extremes of MD are not further away than some in SC and GA. 

Baron James de Biblesworth

> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:48:50 -0700
> From: poetamilitarus at yahoo.com
> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Subject: [MR] "Center" of the Kingdom
> 
> 
> Btw, for those up north using Caer Mear as a reference point for this site
as I have seen in some posts (i.e. 3-4 hours to Caer Mear from thier group) this
site is 3.5 hours South of Caer Mear, so don't consider us in the equation. 
> 
> I would assume however if you were coming from somewhere like Highland
Forde that you would take a route down I-81 instead and bypass Caer Mear in
total, since there is no direct way to get to Betsy-Jeff from Richmond. 
> 
> Sir Bryce de Byram,OL,OP (Duane M. Moore) 300%Peer-Evil
> Baron Caer Mear
> 
> 
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