RE: Pan Am Volunteer Experience

["Maryanne Stroud Gabbani" <maryanne@ratbusters.net>]

I'll have my laptop with me  and maybe can help out with that. I decided in
May that I was going and booked a room in the Ascutney. I hope that Donna
leaves a pack for me there. I'll be arriving on the evening of the
23rd....depending on how long it takes to get from Manhattan to
Woodstock...Any ideas? I've never done that drive. Leaving tonight with
daughter to NYC, where she will be with friends while I come to Vermont.

Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo, Egypt
maryanne@ratbusters.net
www.ratbusters.net
AERC #M22292

-----Original Message-----
From: Linda B. Merims [mailto:lbm@naisp.net]
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 2:48 PM
To: ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: RC: Pan Am Volunteer Experience



I just got my PAC volunteer pack from Donna Smith Curtain.  This
is starting to look like serious fun.  It is a much bigger deal
than I had thought it was.

First, I have been promoted from "Hospitality" stops to the
regular vet checks.  I will evidently be scribing and perhaps
taking pulses at two vet checks, one in the morning and the
second throughout the afternoon.

I have discovered the volunteers are eligible to attend (at cost)
all the dinners and breakfasts and cookouts and clambakes.  I can
sit in the back with the rest of the wannabes and soak up all the
available motivation!

The opening ceremony (sponsored by Endurance World Magazine) is
4 p.m. Thursday, followed by a dinner and dancing.  After the
volunteer orientation Friday morning, I can pre-visit the vet checks
to see the layout and learn my way there, and then I can spend lots
of money at the trade show.  (Saddle vendors, get ready...:-)
Then there's the BBQ Friday evening, a second trip to the volunteer
orientation to see if I missed anything in the morning, and home
to bed.  Then up *early* on Saturday to see the 5 a.m. start,
and then off to my first vet check post.  Maybe my duties will be
done in time for me to make it back for the finish.

Sunday is a Vermont Pancake Breakfast, buying anything at the
trade show I successfully resisted the first three days, BC
judging, awards, a closing ceremony, and then a Lobster bake!

Really, if you were thinking of going up (or down) for this,
I *really* recommend giving it a try.  Gaynor Coassin's number
is 802-484-7785.  Be prepared to find your own lodging or to campout
at the field reserved for volunteers, as I gather that virtually
all of the "rooms donated for volunteers" have been taken.

Sorry that I can't volunteer to help webcast--no laptop.

Linda B. Merims
lbm@naisp.net
Massachusetts, USA






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