Yes I know, I know—it’s just before FallTacular. Nevertheless, I’ve realized I’m getting into L.A. quite a bit earlier than I thought, about 1 pm. That would make available an evening for a pre-festivities OL if anyone would like to do so. I probably would prefer OC slightly only because I’ll be staying at the Best Western Dana Point down there from Thursday night on—and will have some wines waiting for me when I get there that I could potentially share. For this leg of the trip, I could probably also purchase or bring with.
Let me know if anyone interested, always love to get together in smaller groups. This whole thing will be kicking off a busy trip to LA/OC, Hawaii, HK, Singapore and SF.
Let me contact a few people on the board in LA, but certainly looks like we can lean this OC way. I want to reach out to Juyuan and some of the others who were at the last OL in 2015 on the big trip.
One thing, though—I’m going to want a mostly non-California theme given FallTacular will be the couple days later, hope that will be OK (older Cali would be lovely, of course )
Bump, hoping we can still do this. I have some PMs to get out to people who I got together with a few years ago/people on the global city-by-city list. But in absence, Robin, would you be able to make arrangements? Will update here.
If we can manage, would be great—didn’t get the chance to get there a couple years ago. Sam Woo’s worked fine a couple years ago too, though I think Juyuan made all the arrangements that time…
I would have loved to make this but this Thursday night I am working an event, ironically, at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point. If y’all end up at a Dana Point venue, I might still crash in at 10pm or so but don’t count in it.
There are plenty of great spots around DP, Laguna, San Clemente, etc. Playground is great if you have the 30-45 minutes to spare driving up to Santa Ana, but if I were in Mike’s shoes , I’d stay on the coast nearby.