Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Friday, June 26 Seattle Bus Tour - ignore my post to Craig sent to the entire world in error

[Liz Ryan Cole (lizryancole]

How mortifying.  I thought I was pretty good at reply vs reply to  
all.   If you got this far you can delete this now  :(


On May 26, 2009, at 5:16 AM, Liz Ryan Cole wrote:

> Hi Craig - can you do me a favor?  I am out of the country and can't
> check my files. I  hope I have signed up for the Puget Sound all day
> bus tour on Friday, but am not sure.  If I have not will you sign me
> up and I'll pay when I get there (or by credit card earlier if
> appropriate).
>
> thanks so much.
>
> I know I made dorm reservations, I am 90% sure I signed up for the
> conference  but the bus tours are a blur.  thanks.  liz
>
> Liz Ryan Cole
>
> On May 23, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Craig Ragland wrote:
>
> > While all of the pre-conference Puget Sound bus tours visit some
> > special communities, its very easy to understand why the Friday, June
> > 26 tour is almost sold out (even after Neil, our Tours Director,
> > rented a larger bus). At this writing, there are just 4 tickets left.
> > My Songaia neighbor, Tom Barr, will be your tour guide. Tom is an
> > architect and was deeply immersed in Songaia from the earliest days.
> >
> > Like the Wednesday and Thursday tours, which visit other wonderful
> > communities (including Songaia), the Friday tour starts and ends at
> > the University of Washington. The Friday tour bus heads right through
> > downtown Seattle to catch the ferry that truly begin the adventure.
> >
> > The tour includes two very well established communities from the  
> > early
> > 90s and one that's a few years old. All are truly unique...
> >
> > - Winslow Cohousing on Bainbridge Island:
> > http://www.winslowcohousing.org/
> >
> > Winslow was one of the very first purpose-built Cohousing Communities
> > in the United States. Their many stories, both from the early
> > Coho-days in the United States, and as a mature Cohousing community
> > are fascinating.
> >
> > - Bartimaeus Cohousing at Meadow Wood
> > http://www.bartcommunity.org/
> >
> > There are very few cohousing communities with a vision explicitly
> > acknowledging God. They do not intend to be a replacement for church,
> > but rather to "extend and empower that dynamic into an everyday  
> > living
> > experience"
> >
> > - WiseAcres Cooperative in Indianola
> > http://wise-acres.org/
> >
> > How many cohousing communities are "coho-conversions" - that started
> > out as another type of community? We have two in Puget Sound,
> > Sharingwood (Wednesday Tour) and WiseAcres. WiseAcres formed in 1990,
> > but only recently acknowledged that cohousing was the right label to
> > describe them.
> >
> > At the end of the day, the Friday bus heads back to the ferry and  
> > then
> > the University of Washington in time for those registered for the  
> > full
> > conference to attend the Keynote Address and Reception.
> >
> > It will be unfortunate how many people will discover this tour after
> > the last tickets are all sold out, but maybe they'll choose to take
> > the Wednesday tour, which visits the community that is absolutely
> > closest to my heart... any guesses?
> >
> > Find more information on the Conference Cohousing Tours here:
> > http://www.cohousing.org/2009/tours
> >
> > Craig Ragland, Songaia member since 1992
> > Executive Director
> > Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US)
> > 425-487-3550
> > http://www.cohousing.org
> > craig [at] cohousing.org
> >
> > Please consider attending the National Cohousing Conference. Click
> > here:
> > http://www.cohousing.org/conference
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