I'm in Falls Church & am fine with anything anywhere - Now, I'm not 100% sure I'm in town - but it looks like I will be here - so whatever day works best for people works for me during that week. Weekends may be spent out on the ski slopes (on our wonderful DC area mountains) - so weekdays are preferred. I'll bring you the atlas to the next event.

REP is great - I'm sure you already have arrangements, but l'etoile suggested Bopha Angkor hotel for me when I was there & it was a nice hotel at a great price. I had a great time - make sure you bring clean & crisp US dollars. I took about $750 in mostly small bills with me & that was sufficient for 5 days in Cambodia (with the purchase of an airline ticket as well & the hotel on my credit card).

Will you be able to make dinner that week?

I'll be at the Freddies - got multiple reasons for going this year. I may have to cancel as I don't know my schedule, but I booked an award ticket (using 25K UA miles from an account that only had 26K in it) & got a hotel 1/2 mile from the Wyndham (which is running a $200+ rate - yikes - talk about not trying to generate trial & loyalty from FT'ers!)

As for flying UA - I do hate them & they make life for me difficult though I'm not sure why. But they're a preferred provider for work & they're good for east coast short hauls, sitting in coach on a tiny RJ out of IAD - I've already flown over 15k eqms on them this year, in fact - had my luggage lost only twice with them (and once with DL - and January isn't even over yet). PremEx status is also nice when you're flying other *A partners, but now I'm seriously contemplating making the switch to BD as *Gold is easily attained with them.

My ticket is an award ticket on a nonstop in both directions from a now almost empty family member's account whose miles were expiring this year anyways, so I only paid UA $5.00 in fees for this. I'm still sitting on 2 x $25 certs, a $150, and now a $350 & an eSWU (from the NZ trip - although more may be coming as this was all done between the time I sent them a letter & them probably recieving & processing it - the 350 was off a SkyKit & the SWU was from a CSM at SFO - which, if they read & take action on, will probably result in more - I don't want cash vouchers - that means I have to pay the difference out of my own pocket & I don't want to give UA any of my personal money - company money I'm okay with - my money, I'm not - I'd be satisfied if they apologized & gave me my 30K UG miles back).

Ready, willing, and able to attend any of those dates.

Pranu, have an article about the SIN Formula 1 race that may interest you.

10th, 11th or 12th work for me as well!

Sid - Looking forward to hearing all about your trip and experience. And you have definitely got me curious about the article you have.

Anyone around for Wed 6-Feb? Woody125 from ATL is passing thru DC and he has lots of Russian info for my trip next July. He is staying at Fairfax Marriott at Fair Oaks , so I'll get my passport to make a trip across the Potomac.

Literally my backyard but I'll be travelling so won't be able to join you. Don't forget your vaccinations for the trip West

Any updates on your availability the 10th, 11th or 12th? It would be nice to get something tentatively scheduled before people fill up their calendars for that week.

No guarantee that I'm able to attend but the 10th is the only day of those listed that I'm in town.

the sixth might work for me. And are you interested in 17 year old information on ex-Soviet Union - Kishinev, Kiev, Lvov, Moskva, and Leningrad (still called that when I was there last).
or 10 year old information on Estonia?
But would love to hear more recent info from someone.
tom

I'll watch for the firm date before committing to 10,11,12.
tom

What about the evening of the 10th? Would that give you time to return from the big hills that pass for mountains on the east coast, bhatnasx?

I'm in Arkansas through the 11th but might be up for the 12th.

I'm interested, probably DC location with metro access would be most doable, Feb. 10 perhaps is the best date.

how about VA with metro access?

Feb 10th or 11th works for me - 12th just got booked up. As for the 6th, I'm actually flying to MSP that evening, so I can't do anything then.