Hershey was fun, and saw lots of friends, but didn't find a whole lot of stuff. I'm ready for next year already!
Larry, You just did not get there early enough, I came back with a whole big truck load and most was bought monday night or tuesday morning when every one was setting up.
I went Saturday. I arrived around 7:30am to find most of the set-ups still covered. It was obvious that many of the venders had already packed up and left. It looked like 2 out of 3 spaces were empty through out the field. Many didn't come alive till around 9:00am and they just packed up slowly. I had to walk the field 3 times to get to all that were left. I did manage to find many of the items on my wish list so I wasn't disappointed. I will probably plan an earlier trip next year!
Broke, Froze and tired. I got there on Monday afternoon to set up camp. Spent most of my money Tuesday morning before 7:30am. Did get to meet a lot of new friends. I know sitting down on that port-a-john Saturday morning was an 29 degree experience I haven't felt sense my Army days! I did feel very sorry for thoes guys that were in tents.
My two sons and myself arrived at Hersheys on Tuesday evening. My son Luke was kept busy selling MTFCI merchandise (T shirts etc). My other son and myself walked all the fields finding some items that we thought we had to have.
The MTFCI tent was next door to Lang's, so I finally met the famous Trish that I used to place parts orders with.
Lots of fun, but it may take a week or more before my legs recover from all that walking.
For those of you that have never been there, it can be described in one word "HUGE"