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Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 | My first choice would also be New Orleans. I think October is still too hurricane risky for anything on the east coast. How's the weath in Nov, Dec, and Jan?
Malka, why don't you find out what the off season dates are in New Orleans and the possible hotel rates so planners have a starting point to compare to other locations.
Eileen
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Aug 1997 unknown primary, Stage III
mets to 1 lymph node in neck; rt ND, 36 XRT rad
Aug 2001 tiny tumor on larynx, Stage I total laryngectomy; left ND
June 5, 2010 dx early stage breast cancer
June 9, 2011 SCC 1.5 cm hypo pharynx, 70% P-16 positive, no mets, Stage I
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Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | Eileen,
St Petersburg is on the west coast.
David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
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Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 | SOOOOOOOO. You gonna tell me you don't get hurricanes on the west coast of Florida? If we go to a west coast, I would prefer the REAL west coast on the Pacific. Florida is not one of MY favorite spots. Wouldn't you like to go somewhere else for a change?
Take care,
Eileen
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Aug 1997 unknown primary, Stage III
mets to 1 lymph node in neck; rt ND, 36 XRT rad
Aug 2001 tiny tumor on larynx, Stage I total laryngectomy; left ND
June 5, 2010 dx early stage breast cancer
June 9, 2011 SCC 1.5 cm hypo pharynx, 70% P-16 positive, no mets, Stage I
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Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | The St Pete area hasn't had a hurricane come ashore in probably 25 years or so, maybe longer. For some good reason they seem to go above us or through the keys and up towards La or Tx. I have been here since 1986 and I haven't experienced a hurricane force wind yet.
David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
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Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 735 | I will check into New Orleans and Florida anc Virginia, and I will check for the End of Oct . Any other suggestions ?
Sharlee
35 year old Female Non smoker, very occasional alcohol ..Scc T1N0M0,partial glossectomy and left neck disection ,2/9/07 No rad deemed ness. 4/16 tonsillectomy ..Trimengenial Neuralga due to surgery
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Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 735 | OH and I can check Vegas and I was also thinking Chicago for some reason . I stopped there once on a train trip I was taking and I loved it . I dont think there are any Hurricanes there !!
Sharlee
35 year old Female Non smoker, very occasional alcohol ..Scc T1N0M0,partial glossectomy and left neck disection ,2/9/07 No rad deemed ness. 4/16 tonsillectomy ..Trimengenial Neuralga due to surgery
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Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 681 | The best weather here is September - October and April - May. the worst months are August, hot, close to 100% humidity and no air moving and January, usually cold and rainy. There really is no off season. Mardi Gras and Jazzfest time are the big time events here. Also to be avoided unless you are interested are several special events which pretty much tie up the hotels and attractions. They are "Southern Decadence" - a festival of alternate lifestyles on Labor Day weekend, Essence Festival around the 4th of July, and several of the big football weekends.
As far as general weather conditions and travel - no where is good these days. A mountain goat falls off a cliff in Greece and air traffic is affected in Denver. And of course, we all know that the airlines blame everything on bad weather in Denver.
Re: some of the other places mentioned. Chicago is great. We used to go there in late May/ early June for CES convention and it was nice. Virginia and the Carolinas are also very attractive.
We used to go to Las Vegas in January for the CES show and I realy did not like it at all. I found it to be even more artificial than Disney and not at all a relaxing or interesting place to visit.
SCC stage II Partial mandibulectomy w. neck dissection- July 2005. Renal cancer w. partial nephrectomy-Jan 2004. Breast cancer discovered in routine mammogram. Successful lumpectomy, sentinal nodes clear, RT only-2008 Reconstruction of mandible w fibula free flap-Jan 09. TORS removal of begnin pappiloma from esophagus-2010. Masectomy,rt breast 2013.
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Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 | I've been to New Orleans, my brother and his wife have lived there for nine years now. I liked seeing all the old graveyards, but other than that the parts I saw were run down and kind of dirty. Please don't take offense to that. I know there are beautiful parts but if I bring all my girls down there, I don't want them seeing men dressed as women nor grown men taking a whiz on the side of a building in broad daylight!
If it's in NO, let's make sure it's in a nice part.
Minnie
SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.
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