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dancing in the San Francisco Bay Area to Kip Garvey and on weekends to
various other callers for the twenty years we lived in Lafayette, California.
Now that we are on the road, we know we should change the title of our
page, but it is already in search engines this way, so I am reticent to
do so. We're happy our Web Page reaches so many old and new friends.
Be sure to check Mike
Sikorsky's page, as I do that for him, too.
Dancing
in 2003
 Since we were trekking around in the Northwest following our Yellowstone visit, we thought we could do with a bit of dancing and arrived in McCloud in time to catch Bob Baier's A2 week. Bob kept us all entertained and dancing happily for five days at the foot of Mount Shasta, with marshmallow roasts, pot lucks, dinners and the ever-popular skits to add to the fun. As always, we enjoyed dancing and visiting with old friends and making new ones. Unfortunately, this was Bob's final week calling at McCloud, so we were happy to participate in this "last hurrah!" Bronc Wise called a great A2-C1 weekend in the Gold Country. A Canadian caller whose name escapes me was the second caller at this dance where we were able to see lots of old friends. We are enjoying our fourth visit to the square dancing mecca of Mesa. Although we attend some A2 dances, we have confined most of our floor time to C1 workshops and dances because we have embarked on the adventure of C2 lessons. We feel we should be able to do C1 in our sleep in order to justify taking C2 lessons. We are once again enjoying workshops and dances given by Randy Dougherty, Bill Haynes, John Steckman and Mike Sikorsky. And the dancers are great--old friends and new friends--all enjoyable to be with.
Dancing in 2002 Bob Baier blew into town for his now annual Christmas Dance at the Pavilion. A great caller who always sees that you get your money's worth, Bob is also a really nice guy and good friend. Bronc Wise and Jet Roberts put on a great A2 weekend with Gary Carnes at this mini-resort near Hollister on the weekend following Thanksgiving. The dancing was very good, and the dancers were mostly old friends. Harlen Bowen handled the details for the package and did a bang-up job. Bronc Wise called a great A2 dance at the Pavilion for what used to be the Showcase night. Daughter Renee joined him, and we can't get over how grown up she is. We remember her when she danced in a backpack carrier on her mother's back when we were learning C1. We got to dance with lots of old friends and had a great time. We pulled into Mesa on the third of the month with the season in full swing. We are attending A2 Dances and C1 workshops and dances given by Randy Dougherty, Bill Haynes, John Steckman and Mike Sikorsky. We are enjoying the dancing and visiting with square dance friends from California and Oregon and making new acquaintances from all over. This annual event with callers, Bob Baier, Kip Garvey, Tony Oxendine and Jerry Story, was well attended with over 100 RV's parking around the halls at the fairgrounds. Jet Roberts was the guest caller again this year and was well liked by all. We danced in the C1 and A2 halls and enjoyed visiting with friends from all over and had a great time, even though the temperature dipped into the 20's at night.  Dancing in 2001 Bob Baier called the Christmas dance for a full floor of A2 dancers. We had a great time, as expected. Wish Bob were returning next year for this dance, but it isn't going to happen. Bronc Wise called a rousing A2 night for all who attended. We thoroughly enjoyed the dancing and greeting all of our friends there. We thought we had timed our visit here for the beginning of the season, but it turned out to be a little earlier than we had hoped, as several events were still dark. Nevertheless, we danced A2 with Mike Sikorsky and Randy Dougherty and C1 with Bill Haynes and Randy Dougherty. We had heard lots of good things about Bill Haynes, but this was our first opportunity to dance to him. It was very enjoyable. Hopefully we can return here after the holidays for some additional dance time.
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