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Let your unit leader know you want to go. They may already know of someone who has had a change of plans and needs someone to take over their registration. 

Check the message board for postings from people who need someone to take over their registration.

Please - for everyone's sake - be a person of your word and send payment when you say you will. Don't take advantage of someone else's misfortune and create a bad reputation for yourself or our company.

Anyone who is unsure of transportation details - here is a list of possibilities to check into for travel arrangements: Thanks Teddi for posting these to onelist back in April! Of course there are many other sites to check as well - these are just some suggestions.

www.twa.com
www.travelocity.com
www.countryplace.com
www.amtrak.com 
www.flifo.com 
excite.previewtravel.com/Farefinder2 

Those of you hoping to add some activities to your Washington DC trip - here are some links to start you out: Again - thanks to Teddi for providing (as always) wonderfully helpful tips on the candlepartytoo list!

800-422-8644    101 FREE things to do in DC
202-DCVISIT      DC Chamber of Commerce Visitor Info Center
202-724-5644    DC Committee to promote Washington
202-357-2700    Smithsonian Info Center (16 different museums mostly FREE)
202-328-4748    Visitor Info Center
202-789-7000    Convention & Visitors Assn.

http://sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/tour.html  Sightseeing Map with clickable convention hotels

http://www.house.gov/house/Visitor.html  House of Representatives Visitor Information

Call and ask them to send you a packet of info for things to do at the end of July.  If you will be using the bus request a bus/subway maps.   And Info on any passes for entertainment or anything they may have. 

 And If you want tickets to tour the White house, call your state representative for tickets.  You Representative can be found at: http://www.house.gov/writerep/  This way you won't have to stand in line.   This is FREE so it's VERY popular and you don't want to waste precious sightseeing time standing in line.

Teddi even thought to send President Clinton an email...and shared the response through the list:

Thank you for writing to President Clinton via electronic mail.
Since June 1993, the President has received over 2.8 million messages
from people across the country and around the world. Online
communication has become a tool to bring government and the people
closer together.

Because so many of you write, the President cannot personally review
each message, though he does receive samples of his incoming
correspondence. The White House Correspondence staff helps him read and
respond to the mail. All responses are mailed via the U.S. Postal
Service. This is the only electronic message you will receive from
whitehouse.gov. No other message purporting to be from the President or
his staff with an address at whitehouse.gov is authentic. If you have
received such a message, you have received a "spoof."

We appreciate your interest in the work of the Administration.

Sincerely,

Stephen K. Horn
Director, Presidential E-mail
The Office of Correspondence

P.S. Please read on - you may find the following information useful.

-- Regardless of the number of messages you may send, you will receive
only one autoresponder message per day.

-- The only personal addresses at whitehouse.gov are the following:

President@whitehouse.gov
Vice.President@whitehouse.gov
First.Lady@whitehouse.gov
Mrs.Gore@whitehouse.gov

Please write to White House staff by regular mail. The address is:

The White House, Washington, D.C.,

Zip codes as follows:

20500 (mail to the President and First Family)
20501 (mail to the Vice President, his family, and OVP staff)
20502 (all White House Office Staff, all CEA, OPD, OSTP, and
PFIAB staff)
20503 (all CEQ, OA, OMB, and ONDCP staff)
20504 (all NSC staff)
20508 (all USTR staff)

-- On October 20, 1994, President Clinton and Vice President Gore
opened a World Wide Web home page called "Welcome to the White House:
An Interactive Citizens' Handbook," and it remains one of the more
popular spots on the Web.

The White House home page provides, among other things, a single
point of access to virtually all government information available on the
Internet. Children especially enjoy the "White House for Kids" feature.
Look
for your tour guides, Socks and Buddy, the First Pets.

"Welcome to the White House" can be accessed at:

http://www.whitehouse.gov

-- White House documents and publications are available on the World
Wide Web (see above) and by E-mail. To receive instructions on
retrieving documents by E-mail, please send a message to the following
address:

publications@pub.pub.whitehouse.gov

In the Subject line, type "hello" (without quotes); you may leave the
body of the message blank. The instructions will be sent to you
automatically.

-- The White House Public Access E-mail FAQ (Frequently Asked
Questions) document is available at the following address. Send an
E-mail message (no text necessary) to:

FAQ@whitehouse.gov

Among other things, the FAQ lists alternate sources of government
information, e.g., the Congressional E-mail projects. (This FAQ address
is an autoresponder only; any comment sent to this address will not be
acknowledged.)

I can't wait to meet you all in Washington DC in July! 
It's going to be a blast! Belinda

This page last updated  July 06, 2005