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To: Edwarda who wrote (78263)	4/17/2000 12:20:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Yes, except insofar as I might have, under worse circumstances, ended up in the hospital. They estimated a fourteen hour drive with three stops: it became 18 hours. (On the way back, a bus broke down, and it became almost 20 hours, waiting for a replacement). The organization was very poor: for example, there was a terrible snafu about reservations and keys because either someone had not faxed the revised lists, or the hotels had lost them. We did not go to our hotels first, but went directly to the Magic Kingdom, with less than five hours and an enormous amount of fooling around to see anything. (Not to mention a good late afternoon rain). Needless to say, with the difficulty of sleeping soundly on the bus, and no adequate time to rest in the hotels (curfew at 11, breakfast at 7:45), I was exhausted, nodding off momentarily during conversations with my wife at the end of meals. I got a reasonable degree of allergy coverage, but the humidity the first couple of days had me in a dither, since I couldn't shake all allergy problems. Just running around so much to fulfill someone else's schedule was bruising. Anyway, it was terribly disorganized, very demanding, and amazingly inconsiderate. Fortunately, the musical groups performed very well, and our son had a reasonably good time. However, by the time we got home, he was swearing he would never do a trip this exhausting again himself.......