Gail,

I have talked to several now and it looks like 3 August to 17 August of 2002 would be a great date. That would give us time to do some planning, penny saving, pound loosing and trip preparation. The big blast should happen on the 10th and the 11th of August, with arrival dates starting with the 3rd of August with a planned ending point of the 17th. That would be a little on the hot side, but survivable. It would also be a good time to blow the weight loss, the saved pennies, and prove that planning for the unexpected would be just shy of impossible.

Dave