[PVRCNC] Meeting location change?

[Gary Ferdinand W2CS]

> I would like to offer up an idea for consideration.
>
> Is there any interest in the group to find a new location to
> meet?  We have
> been at Ryans for several years(not sure how many...3 or more?)
> and I wonder
> if there might be another place we could find that would meet our
> needs.  A
> change of cuisine and location might not be all bad.

I for one would love a change in "cuisine."  Last year I found the food
there downright unhealthy and barely palatable.

>
> We do have a significant percentage of our membership(who
> regularly attend
> meetings) living either in North Raleigh....or WAY north Raleigh.
> :)  Maybe a
> more central location which would average out the distance for the south
> Raleigh/Cary/Apex crew along with those from the regions North of  the
> beltline.

One thing important to consider I think is not so much averaging distance,
but rather, averaging TIME. We seem to start gathering for the BS session
between 5:30 and 6.  That's a pretty busy time for traffic, if you're
heading the same way traffic is.  Many is the night when I was stuck in a
long line of cars SW of the beltway waiting in line on US 1.  Door to door
for me (5 miles east of Jordan Lake) is about 35 minutes to get to Ryans,
assuming no traffic snafus.  I wouldn't even THINK of I-40 at that hour.

Perhaps this is the norm.  If not, let's also consider time in the equation.

>
> I have not investigated any locations to offer up as
> possibilities due to the
> reasoning that if this issue doesn't hold water...I didn't want
> to be wasting
> my time.

On your specific thought to move to somewhere more central to north Raleigh,
I guess that would be Raleigh itself?  Speaking for myself, the closer we
get to Raleigh or north Raleigh at that time of night, the more I have to
run the gaunlet of rush-hour traffic on (take ur pick): I-40, NC54,
US64/1...  I'd think north Raleigh (say in the area of Falls of the Neuse
where all the restaurants are) would take me about an hour. That's a looong
time for a retired old fart who manages his time to completely avoid traffic
whenever possible :-)

Time is the key.  For me.

73/Gary W2CS


>
> Any discussion?
> 73,
> jeff NX9T
>
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