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Volume 1, No. 11. June 29, 2001

Thank yous
I have been traveling for 18 straight days, now. That means I have been out of my office the whole period that this edition of THE LOOP has been compiled, written and posted. That fact is a testimony to two things:

1). the immediately accessible nature of THE LOOP as an electronic media, allowing us to keep connected to you no matter where we are or what we're doing; and,

2). the hospitality of all the Pennsylvania parks that have hosted me and my two apprentices/sons on this current trip.

I want to thank the park operators for their warm welcomes, their generosity and their ongoing good customer service and well-run properties.

A particular thank you goes to Jerome Gibas at Idlewild in Ligonier, Pennsylvania, for allowing me to use his air conditioned meeting room while my two apprentices conducted field research out in his park. It is from here that I am wrapping up issue Number 11 and posting it for you.

A special thank you, too, to my partner in THE LOOP and my wife in life, Sarah, who has anchored the home office this whole time. Happy ninth anniversary! And as we head for home at last tomorrow, I've got something important to tell you, Sarah. Um, Ian bought a water slide.

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