Look Who I Got To Meet!

Whilst wandering the open plains of Kalispell, I spotted famed Joshua's Creed musician extraordinaire Derek Close, aka Xid!  What good fortune! 

My wife and I had a very nice lunch with him yesterday on the tail-end of our trip to Glacier Nat'l Park.  We're only a ~four hour gorgeous drive away so if any of the rest of y'all come up this way, it'd be fun to have a reunion!

Very Cool!  I love seeing pictures of CHM members together in the wild.
Hope you guys had a great visit (and lunch).
What did you talk about?


Kerrick you are now substantially ahead of me now in "collecting CHM members IRL" 

We should seriously attempt a CHM Meetup for next year.  Any suggestions on a somewhat Central location for most of us?

alldatndensum wrote:

We should seriously attempt a CHM Meetup for next year.  Any suggestions on a somewhat Central location for most of us?

Derek's house!

We had a great visit!  It was fun meeting Kerrick & Veronika.  We had the usual chit chat and talked about music, the boneheads at CHM, Glacier National Park, Chili etc.  We met over my lunch hour so, unfortunately our time was short.

Very cool indeed ! It always feels like meeting a movie, or rock star when I hook up with one of ya'all 

One of these days I plan to backpack at Glacier, but it's so much farther than my favorite spots.

Have the crowds gone down because of the wildfires destroying so much?

Xid wrote:

We had a great visit!  It was fun meeting Kerrick & Veronika.  We had the usual chit chat and talked about music, the boneheads at CHM, Glacier National Park, Chili etc.  We met over my lunch hour so, unfortunately our time was short.

Hey!  I resemble that remark! 

Guilty/Forgiven wrote:

Very cool indeed ! It always feels like meeting a movie, or rock star when I hook up with one of ya'all 

Why do I get the feeling you where talking about me there....only the rock star was Meatloaf? 

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We should seriously attempt a CHM Meetup for next year.  Any suggestions on a somewhat Central location for most of us?

How about Kalispell?  Or someplace around the mid-west such as Denver?  I would suggest Phoenix in the middle of August but that might not go over to well...

I vote for Kalispell!  Coeur d'Alene is nice too...

Where is Kalispell?

I would seriously like for us to consider at least a quick meetup even if we flew in on one day, hung out for a few hours, and flew back home the next day.  I think it could be fun.  I do realize that not everyone could do it because of distance.  However, most of us might if we set a place, date, and had a YEAR to plan for it.

Putting it that far west really puts a stopper on most anyone east of the Mississippi traveling there for a quick meetup.  For me, that's not that long of a flight, but it would take a couple of days to drive it.  If we could meet up someplace centrally located for most of us, we might get a few more takers.  I was thinking Arkansas or Kansas.  We'd be pretty much smack dab in the middle.

I'm up for a get together, within decent driving distance.

Anywhere but Iowa . . . . they don't know how to make tacos there 

I live so far away that it doesn't matter where we do it, I will likely need to fly.  Just pick a place and give plenty of time to plan.

Adam made a pretty cool google map on CMR with everyone's locations (with their permission, of course).  It could be helpful if someone made a similar map here.  Then we could see where most people are and might be able to visualize better.

Also, I'm guessing with Jim's condition, flying or driving for any distance might be out of the question for him.  Perhaps meeting somewhere close to him would be ideal.

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Also, I'm guessing with Jim's condition, flying or driving for any distance might be out of the question for him.  Perhaps meeting somewhere close to him would be ideal.

You would also have to factor in the extra costs for those coming from far away for that.  California is an expensive flight for me and at least a three day drive.  Hardkore is in L.A. (lower Alabama) and MikeInFla is in, well, Florida.  You have Andre up in Canada.

This isn't going to be an easy thing to put together.

Yup that's why I was suggesting we put together a map of everyone and go from there.  Maybe we have a few "regional" CHM meet-ups: one in the south, one in the north, etc.!

kerrick wrote:

Also, I'm guessing with Jim's condition, flying or driving for any distance might be out of the question for him.  Perhaps meeting somewhere close to him would be ideal.

Everyone arrive in SoCal July 31 THIS summer for the party. 

I can't.  I have to return to school on July 30.  Students start on Aug. 1.

I think this meeting is only for the CHM members in the USA.

While I think everyone getting together is a nice thought, idea, intention... I think it's near impossible. Heck I couldn't even get all of ya to send me a picture for the virtual "CHM meeting" pictures I photoshopped !    

rockerVu2 wrote:

I think this meeting is only for the CHM members in the USA.

Again, that depends on where/when it happens.  If we could get this planned out for NEXT YEAR, you might could do it.

Next year my husband I I hope it's possible to visit my husband's Canadian family.
Some family members are around Vancouver. I hope the distance between Kalispere MT and Vancouver is not to far.
California would be to far for us.