My work here is done...

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"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Where to draw the line?

fwiw - my vote: right where you've drawn it today.

--
Bob Noel
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Where to draw the line?

I'd replace all the religious books with Feynman's lectures on physics.

Jose
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Where to draw the line?

Personally, I think you draw the line wherever the heck you please. It's
your hotel, and no one's business what you think is appropriate to stock in
a room or not. I doubt even the Gideon's get used much at all, especially
at a place like yours (just how many soul-searching lost sheep wind up
crashing at your pad, looking for guidance in the form of a book?).

If you do wind up with the urge to diversify (and why not?), I think the
solution is not to stock each room with multiple texts, but to rather stock
no room with any text, and provide some sort of reading room or library
where copies of a variety of interesting texts can be found. Religious
material of all sorts, whether Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or Aviation, would
be perfectly appropriate.

Pete

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Speaking of the bibles in hotel rooms. Do the Gideons show up from time
to
time to restock or is there a secret phone number you call to have them
delivered? And where do they meet. I've never run into a Gideon in person
and these questions nag at me.

Amazingly, yes, the Gideons simply show up from time to time.
Actually, they call ahead, and ask how many we need. They are very
nice folks.

Thus far, we have continued this age-old hotel tradition of stocking
Bibles in each suite, but I must confess to being uncomfortable about
it. We've been hit up by Mormons, too (we declined their offer of
stocking the "Book of Mormon") and I expect the Muslims to call on us
any day with Korans.

Where to draw the line?
--


OK that is funny. When I typed the previous message I ALMOST made a Mormon
joke because I had watched the new HBO show "Big Love" the night before.

Very cool Jay. Must feel nice to have been part of Antoinette getting
her license.


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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Very cool Jay. Must feel nice to have been part of Antoinette getting
her license.

Not yet. She's only just soloed -- but that's 90% of the battle.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

My bad...that's what I get for reading the initial post then replying
days later, after I've forgotten critical details. Ah well, she'll get
her license and you'll still be responsible for putting her on the path
to flying. Still very cool and something I hope to be able to do someday


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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Jay Honeck wrote:
40 months ago, when we opened our aviation themed hotel, one of our
first guests was a traveling nurse named Antoinette. She was a
divorced mom in her mid-30s, sweet as pie, in Iowa City to fulfill a
13-week contract at one of our medical centers.

She soon became a "regular" in the lobby, along with her elderly black
labrador, Beasley. A nicer pair has seldom graced our presence, and we
really hit it off with her and ol' Beas. Within a few weeks Mary and I
had invited her to go flying with us for a typical "$100 breakfast",
and with some trepidation she agreed to join us for the 30-minute
flight to the Quad Cities, where her boyfriend lived.

Of course I let her sit up front and fly, and had her do all the usual
turns and climbs. She was concentrating, very serious, and seemed to
be enjoying herself -- but the sheen of sweat on her upper lip betrayed
her effort. As with most newbies, she was over-controlling a bit, but
this soon settled down, and she did a fine job. (It was a nice, calm
day, luckily.)

We landed, had a marvelous brunch, and headed back to Iowa City. This
time Mary and Antoinette flew, while I marveled at the incredible
legroom available to me in the back of Atlas while two short women
flew!

After landing she thanked us both profusely, and it was clear that we
had set the hook pretty deeply. We were badgered with questions about
cost, time, the medical, lessons, instructors -- you name it, she
wanted to know about it.

Well, today, Tuesday, April 4, 2006, some 3.5 years later, Antoinette
soloed! And even though she hasn't lived at the inn for two years, we
have remained good friends (she was our first massage therapist at the
inn, too) and we were her very FIRST stop after leaving the airport.

(Interestingly, we had heard her on Unicom while she was flying, and
Mary had commented how much more confident she sounded. We had NO idea
she was alone, of course!)

It's been a long, long time since I've seen anyone as pumped and happy
-- what a wonderful thing to experience! She has had a long, hard row
to hoe (job changes, trouble with her medical, and instructor problems,
just to name a few obstacles), but she never took her eyes off the
prize. Her celebrations are well-deserved, and nothing could make us
happier than her success.

Antoinette is our first "true aviation convert" to leave the nest
(we've got a couple of others simmering) and she is bound and
determined to get her ticket. She has joined a tiny, tiny fraction of
the earth's population (pilots), and, as a woman pilot, she joins an
even tinier subset of the whole. (Only ~6% of all pilots are women.)
What a great day!

Next time you fly, take a minute to admire that pesky little 152
working the pattern at your airport -- that's our future you're
watching!

Dang -- you know, come to think of it, maybe my work here has just
begun!?

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Cool...

Good on you mate! hehehe My impression of Steve the Crock Hunter.
:-))

The Monk