Chase '05 plans are solid
This year will be a little different (in many ways). Last year's chase window was short for me. I had a lot of client work piled up and it was all I could to to break away for one week. We all know that timing is everything. Turns out the two weeks leading up to my trip last year were some of the most active and photogenic periods the alley has seen in years. And I,.. well I landed in the final hours of the last day of the '04 outbreak. After meeting up with my chase partner (and cousin) Joel in Omaha, we bagged wedge and a nice elephant trunk within two hours of my touching down. After that it was a "blue sky week." The party was basically over. We spent most of the week hanging around Amarillio TX with Warren, hoping something would break. It didn't. Then it was back home and back to work for Doren.
Any chaser will tell you, the bigger the window the better your chances. So this year I've commited to 3+ weeks. I'm also going a couple of weeks earlier. Hoping to get more southern action. For a change in strategy I'll be flying into Wichita KS on the 18th of May. I'll be on my own for the first week (My chase partner Joel lands in Omaha a week later). I intend to hook up with Warren, wherever he might be at the time. But I expect to be chasing alone until the weather patterns put us in proximity of each other. Never been to Wichita. Looking forward to it.
As I said, Joel comes out a week later. Then we'll probably ditch one of the "hailcatchers" and ride together into June. I'm tentatively scheduled to fly back to Boston on the 10th.
And from the bad time department (as usual), my trip falls right in the middle of a New Home, real estate shuffle.
Right after my return Jodie and I are scheduled to close on a new place in Salem MA. We'll be moving within weeks and scrambling to prep our place in cambridge for sale or rental. Ugh,.. More on that as events unfold. One adventure at a time...
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Well, when you *do* make it back & get settled in to your new digs, you'll have to try:
The Front Street Cafe: good coffee just around the corner
Fuel: Also decent beverages, in the pedestrian mall.
Plus, free wireless internet access in the downtown area, mainly around the pedestrian mall.
Welcome to Salem!
Posted by: dainis | May 18, 2005 1:40 PM