I was talking to Gayla and Cynthia today about the next location. I don't necessarily care WHERE it is as long as it is affordable, within a 12-hour drive for us again, and IN A HOTEL. I just don't see how a campground would work well...what if we have bad weather for one thing? Second, a few dogs got lost at our KC meetup a couple times (one of which we found in the hotel kitchen
). The owners were worried looking for their babies..but can you imagine if we are OUTSIDE and one gets lost? We might never find it. I and others can NOT trust our dogs outside off-leash and that would really limit our fun at a yorkie meetup if our dogs can't get down and mingle with the others.
Okay...here's my thoughts on TEXAS again.... we have a LOT of active YT members in Texas. The Dallas and Houston meetups always have great turn-outs. If the meetup is in Texas I know that we'd have a huge turn-out of Texas members...I can think of many many many members that would come from the Dallas area, Houston area, Austin area, and central TX area. Also, we have some big vendors in Texas such as Tinkerbell's Closet (shanatink), Prissy Paw Fashions (crb), Fufu Fashions, etc....so we might have a great vendor turnout. Texas has a few very dog friendly cities, and there are Drury hotels if that's the direction we want to go in. And we'll be inside the majority of the time so I don't see the heat really being a concern. And like someone mentioned earlier, it's not as hot in Texas in June..more so later in the summer. And I think it's going to be hot anywhere we go in the summer.