Robin & Carol's Excellent Adventure, Part II

Robin's email escapades continue:

Friends:

first off, I think this gets forwarded to Rotarians in my club. Rotarians, don't worry about the names mentioned. and friends, forget the rotary stuff. It all gets boring in the end. Sorry.

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Camo folks: Mike Miller da dentist is the new wooster prez, he is supposed to be here and I am having dinner with my district peeps tuesday night, i should see him.

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Carol and I drove 15 hours in the car yesterday. In two and a half days, we put over 1200 miles on the Montego/500/tank. Then the oil light came on. And so, in swanky Jackson Hole, Wyoming we changed it for fifty bucks. My mom has the same problem with her 500. I don't like Jackson--too touristy, too rich, too, well, I can't put my finger on it. But Rich, we could buy a half mile of river for trout fishing for 13.9 million dollars. Your dad could trick out our gear. Today we traded in the car for ANOTHER Sherman: a taurus. Cripes, I feel like I'm in a hummer. But that was $75 extra a day. So we settled for the smaller tank. Captain Carol seems to like it better. Corporal Robin shuts up and lets her.

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Today was the meeting for the Rotary Convention in Salt Lake. Opening ceremonies are tomorrow. And then the convention officially opens. after visiting another wally world, and some shopping, I went to the Salt Palace Convention center for my volunteer Sergeant at arms training. There are 19 thousand rotarians registered. About 4-6K were in the center today, getting credentials and getting crap. I did the same, buying pins and taking any FREE crap I could lay my digits on. And I have to go back at 7am tomorrow to SAA. It's like a mcdonalds uniform: a bright red vest and a visor. A freaking VISOR. And we have to know everything, or as Hassan, the director says, "smile and tell them you don't know and smile again." Loads of foreign folks--and many of them dressed in their native outfits. I spent time talking with a Ugandan doctor who is peddling his club's project for women impacted by Uganda's long war. We'll talk more at the meetings later about this, rotarians. And I spent time with a couple from Oregon who talked with me about the politics of rotary, who is a rotarian, and what we do as clubs. Very good.

The center is huge. to walk from one end to the other is at least a mile, maybe longer. To walk around the huge House of Friendship (food, vendors, etc) is at least a mile. It will be packed wall to wall by tomorrow, so it was nice shopping today and getting it all over with.

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Thanks again to all the wise rotarians who helped me get here and gave much needed advice. It has been heeded. Gotta go memorize salt palace map and book for convention, which is NOT tiny.