At 10:21 PM 7/24/96 -0400, Bert Van Vliet wrote:

Greetings!

Virginia Beach on the other hand, WAS confusing.  Interstates running
through a city are nightmares conceived by twisted civil engineers.

Man, do I copy that!

Although it was kinda fun getting a police escort from Williamsburg all
the way to Edwards Air Force base ^_^

Umm...were you in your own vehicle, or were they hauling you off to a nice
one bed room somewhere to be a guest of the state? -_^

No, a bus. Long story, weird trip that involved my having dinner with George 
Lucas, discussing F-18 piloting with Chuck Yeager, debating evolutionary ethics
with the paleontoligist who was the consultant for Jurassic Park, getting
writing advice from Tom Clancy and John Grisham, getting and losing Robin
Williams'
autograph, missing my flight home and spending 24hrs in the Norfolk Int'l
Airport ( if anyone needs to know the layout of the place, I have it down *cold*
^_- )...

Oh, one piece of advice: Do not make puns about nobel prizes when a person who
has actually won one is within earshot, especially when said person is scheduled
to give a speech later that same night ;)


									- MW