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1 posted on 04/09/2011 6:54:43 PM PDT by iowamark

2 posted on 04/09/2011 7:36:20 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))

Waterloo, Davenport, & Kolona fellow-fans took us to Riverside Park in 1999, while the starship used in the parades was still fairly new and looking good. It was a couple of months after Trek Fest, so we missed that.

We were on a ‘Trek trek” around the country to meet several members of the now defunct Prodigy (Classic) Star Trek BBS that we had long corresponded with online...and make ‘mandatory’ visits to a few relatives.

Our primary purpose was to drive from Oregon to Miami...dropping off a trailer load of stuff at the SD ranch ‘on the way’... for a Star Trek cruise, meeting up with still more fans we already knew. After the cruise, we stayed with one couple for 2 weeks, after driving their art work auction purchases, which they couldn’t fit into their airline baggage, back to Cleveland for them.

We met up with fans in Missouri, Louisiana, Ohio, Iowa, Kentucky, and Wisconsin. We had a blast.

In Iowa, we all met up...total strangers (and there’s NOBODY stranger than Trekkies!)... at the Ox Yoke Restaurant in the Amanas, just in case any of us were really bat’leth murderers in disguise. *<];-’)

We still visit back & forth with some of them; and keep in touch with a few more. Sadly, some have died; one just plain disappeared without a trace.

3 posted on 04/09/2011 7:57:09 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)

4 posted on 04/09/2011 8:10:03 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)

5 posted on 04/09/2011 8:11:26 PM PDT by dfwgator

'the Riverside City Council voted not to fund the $10,000 needed to put on the event this year'

KHAAAANNNN!!!!!!

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6 posted on 04/09/2011 9:23:38 PM PDT by Viking2002 (RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!!!!)

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