GenCon 1993

Wednesday

I arrived in Milwaukee Wednesday afternoon, driving up from South Bend after working that morning. Travel was fairly easy along the Skyway into Chicago with no major delays, so I made pretty good time through Chicago to Milwaukee. This year, as usual, I was staying with my old gaming and GenCon travelling friend (and fellow Clobberin’ Times apa member) Rex Joyner in the Holiday Inn (formerly the Howard Johnson’s). Of all the hotels other than the Hyatt directly opposite MECCA, it is the best located: it was two blocks south and off to one side of MECCA, so you didn’t have to walk around MECCA the way you did travelling to and from the Marc Plaza. Parking was free, too, with in/out privileges, so that was helpful. Their breakfast buffet was also good, and I ate breakfast there three of the four mornings of the convention.

I did my usual investigation of the local bookstore that afternoon, (and saw a couple of the GenCon Amber people there (no big surprise)), then waited around for the dinner at Toys (the Chinese restaurant across from the Hyatt) that I was informed about by Sue Grau in her ‘zine in CT. (A large group of Hero people, Compuserve people, and others descend on the place: they had the back half of the place reserved for us.) I was also told by Laurie Curley that it would start around 7:00 pm. Well, actually it started around 8:00 pm, but a lot of Hero people arrived earlier, so I sat around and listened to upcoming plans and rumors, then hung out with the Clobberin’ Times and Hero Auxiliary Corps people until I had had enough Chinese food to last me a while. I saw a number of the Hero and Hero Auxiliary Corps people there, including Sue and Brian Grau and Brian and Laurie Curley.

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