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Jul 13 2013

Flights All Booked

Thu 08 Aug 2013
London Gatwick to Toronto
TS 323 DEP Gatwick 11:45
ARR Toronto 14:55

Sun 11th August
07:15 Toronto 08:50 Cincinnati Delta 3699
10:39 Cincinnati 12:00 Atlanta Delta 1520
1335 Atlanta 14:36 Tri Cities Delta 5170

14th August
09:03 Tri Cities 10:15 Atlanta Delta 5220
11:05 Atlanta 13:23 Seattle Delta 1220

18th August
07:25 Seattle 09:28 San Jose Alaska Airlines 6900

22nd August
10:33 San Francisco 1206 Las Vegas

29th August
06:00 Las Vegas 10:45 Dallas Fort Worth 1474 American Airlines
11:50 Dallas Fort Worth 12:55 San Antonio 1264 American Airlines

6th September
14:00 New Orleans 18:02 NYC-Kennedy 3481 Delta
19:25 NYC-Kennedy 07:40 London Heathrow 4375 Delta

By • Pre TAFF Planning •

Jul 10 2013

ESTA she say yes!

I’ve applied for my ESTA thing and robot online border control says yes. I will go to the ball United States.

Canada doesn’t seem to have one of these things.

Authorization Approved

Your travel authorization has been approved and you are authorized to travel to the United States under the Visa Waiver Program. This does not guarantee admission to the United States; a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer at a port of entry will have the final determination.
If necessary, you can update the following information on an approved authorization: address while in the United States, flight information, e-mail address, and phone number. To access your travel authorization, you will be required to provide your application number, passport number, and birth date. If you need to change any other information on the form, you must apply for a new travel authorization.
Have a nice trip. Welcome to the United States.

By • Pre TAFF Planning •

Jun 29 2013

Jim’s TAFF trip

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By • Pre TAFF Planning •

Jun 1 2013

TAFF Trip planning

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8th August – Travelling – arrive Toronto
9th August – Toronto – with Catherine Crockett
10th August – Toronto
11th August – Travelling – arrive Abingdon
12th August – Abingdon – with Curt Phillips
13th August – Abingdon
14th August – Travelling – arrive Seattle
15th August – Seattle – with Randy Byers
16th August – Seattle
17th August – Seattle – Party!
18th August – Travelling – arrive Santa Cruz – with Glenn Glazer
19th August – Santa Cruz – BASFA meeting inthe evening
20th August – with Jay Kinney
21st August – With Jay Kinney
22nd August – Travelling – arrive Las Vegas
23rd August – Las Vegas – with Jacq Monahan
24th August – Las Vegas – The Vegrants Party
25th August – Las Vegas – annual BrunchCon Fannish Fiesta!
26th August – Las Vegas – with Alan White
27th August – Las Vegas
28th August – Las Vegas – Beam Editorial shenanigans with Nic Farey
29th August – Travelling – arrive at Worldcon
30th August – Worldcon
31st August – Worldcon
1st September – Worldcon
2nd September – Worldcon
3rd September – Travelling – leave Worldcon to go to New Orleans
4th September – New Orleans – with Rebecca Smith
5th September – New Orleans
6th September – Travelling returning home

By • Pre TAFF Planning •

May 5 2013

Tentative Planning

Map of America

 

I reckon I should crack on and nail down a few details.
First: I go West
Second: I congratulate myself on figuring out a direction.
Thirdly: I stop counting.

I aim to finish my trip at the Worldcon which will be on the 29th of August to the 2nd of September.

There are a few paces I will definitely visit and these are:

Toronto

Seattle

Las Vegas

and, of course, San Antonio for the Worldcon.

There are other places that it would be nice to visit. Curt has suggested Abingdon, VA which is tremendously tempting also and Nic reeled off a mighty list of cities with fannish infestations, all of which he felt I should visit. My head is spinning, reeling and making peculiar little Phlup noises as I try to piece it all together.

Any comments or suggestions please feel free to message me using that funky little contact tab in the right hand corner of the page.

 

By • Pre TAFF Planning •

Apr 23 2013

The TAFF results 2013

North America Europe Total
Theresa Derwin 5 11 16
Jim Mowatt 47 44 91
Hold Over Funds 1 0 1
No Preference 8 5 13
Total 61 60 121

 

The PDF with the full voting details is here

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By • General TAFFing •

Apr 21 2013

Upgraded from TAFF candidate to TAFF delegate

Well, a million thanks to all you TAFF voters. I’ve just had ‘the’ phone call. It seems I am now TAFF delegate for 2013, so I will be attending Lonestarcon3 in San Antonio and touring other fannish destinations (Hurrah!). I haven’t seen the results yet but I’m guessing that a substantial number of you must have decided to vote for me and therefore propel me to the other side of the Atlantic in August. I thank you all.

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I am also extremely grateful to the people that helped me  to run my TAFF campaign. I was keen to try and make it a high profile campaign to help promote the fund (we managed it in some areas but not in others) and  several people put in vast amounts of time, trouble and effort to help me achieve what I wanted to do.

Thanks, in particular to Nic Farey, Randy Byers and my partner Carrie. Lots of people helped but these three bent their backs just that little bit further. It was/is very much appreciated.

I am a very happy TAFF delegate indeed!

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