Kathy, no need to go through all that for the TA issues. USE ME. I can be the front TA for all of this it is no problem at all. Get them to send it to me or do it in my name and I will pass it on to you. Any commission that comes along I will simply pass back to everyone.

I wanted everyone to know that I have learned to not get involved in planning land programs. I used to do it all the time and it eats your lunch time wise. It was hard to say NO to people and those of you who know me well know that I have a hard time saying NO. However at some point you just have to do it.

I found everyone was calling me for all cruises for this land or that land and it became unmanageable. The normal thing is that they hear you did it for someone and then they feel hurt if you dont do it for them as well. If you do it once it never ends. I was tempted to say I would do this for MUSH as it is such a big group and I was escorting but then I have about five or six escorted trips a year and I know from experience every port of call for each of those trips I would be getting requests to do land. Hope you understand that.

These land programs are never as simple as they sound. People all have issues and it ends up being a ton of work. Please be aware of that with Kathy handling this as you go on down the road.

The only place I will do land is St. Petersburg because I know RED OCTOBER so well and it makes SUCH a difference to use them. I have this down pat and yet it always still take a lot of time to pull together.

This is one of the nice things about a group though that you can do these private land arrangements.