An outside air convention during the flying season would be great. Need good
weather, willing host and no conflict with contests.

Summer Soaring Fly-In: Is this something the National Soaring Foundation at
Hobbs was originally created to accomplish? A national soaring site? Hobbs
would be a good venue for a summertime soaring "fly-in".

SSA Member's Work Week: We could all go to our HQ and personally thank the
current hard-working SSA Staff. Let's volunteer to stuff envelopes or repaint
the SSA building. Wouldn't that be something? Imagine dozens of SSA members
converging on Hobbs to do club-type work on our infrastructure. I'm sure SSA
Staff could come up with a list of "honey-do's" that would save our SSA money
and rekindle our "national soaring club" spirit. Been to Hobbs lately?
It's lookin' good with new restaurants, motels, culture. (I bought a ukelele in
the local music store!)

SSA Conventions: We should continue with our annual winter SSA Conventions. I
sure enjoy them, and the cost for my Marfa Soaring booth was reasonable.

Another day! I wish our annual SSA Convention was a day longer - perhaps into
Sunday mid-afternoon. Perhaps more local folks would attend on Sunday. So
many great seminars, vendors, people to meet and talk with - never enough time
for me to see / do it all at the SSA Convention.

So I'll see y'all in Ontario, CA for the 2005 SSA Convention, then Dallas in
2006.

Burt Compton
Marfa Gliders, west Texas