RE: AIS: Dressing for Dallas


I agree that overpacking is generally a good idea.  I have one additional
tip -- pack a pair of shoes that you won't mind wrecking in the gardens.
You never know when you might want to go into a muddy area to check out that
gorgeous plant.
Maureen Mark
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (zone 4)

>     This is the hardest part of going to a convention.  Kathy nailed the
> banquets
> pretty well (usually a tie for closing banquet but not for the opening)
> but now
> for the hard part.  What to wear to the gardens!!  Let's see, in '98 the
> day
> before the bus tours we were in shorts and it was 80+ degrees.  Two days
> later it
> was 32 degrees and I was wearing socks on my hands for mittens and we had
> layered
> our T-shirts under our light weight windbreakers.   BRR.....  So, now I
> pack:
> shorts, jeans, T-shirts, sweatshirts, coats, rain poncho, etc.....  Good
> thing we
> are driving, every time I think of something else I just put it in the van
> <VBG>.
> 
> 
> 
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> Dana Brown
> Pres. South Plains Iris Society
> Lubbock, TX  USA  79401
> Zone 7 USDA, Zone 10 Sunset
> 
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