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I had a thought about a possible way of orchestrating a "meal plan" of sorts for another attempt at a gather. I know from experience that bringing your own food from a long ways away is difficult to impossible*. If you have someplace nearby to buy, that helps, but still it'd be hard on anyone who'd be trying to take a plane. But on the other hand, I am definitely not up for actually arranging for catering (yikes!) or cooking everything myself.
So I thought, how about a "food bank" approach? People who want to buy into the plan pay extra on top of the registration fee, and then check some boxes in a list or whatever indicating their general food preferences, and food is bought and brought on their behalf by a person or people actually local to the site, but they still have to prepare it themselves. Perhaps additionally those bringing food and not buying the plan could be asked to bring one extra item (such as a box of cereal, a can of some vegetable, etc) to add to the pile just in case. Does this sound like it might work, given sufficient cooking equipment and facilities?
* - Basically fuhgeddaboudit if you are trying to cross an international border, not that I expect any Canadians; even some states have rules about what can be brought from other states, and actually California is one of them, although I've only once been stopped on the way instate and asked if I had any proverbial fruit to declare.
So I thought, how about a "food bank" approach? People who want to buy into the plan pay extra on top of the registration fee, and then check some boxes in a list or whatever indicating their general food preferences, and food is bought and brought on their behalf by a person or people actually local to the site, but they still have to prepare it themselves. Perhaps additionally those bringing food and not buying the plan could be asked to bring one extra item (such as a box of cereal, a can of some vegetable, etc) to add to the pile just in case. Does this sound like it might work, given sufficient cooking equipment and facilities?
* - Basically fuhgeddaboudit if you are trying to cross an international border, not that I expect any Canadians; even some states have rules about what can be brought from other states, and actually California is one of them, although I've only once been stopped on the way instate and asked if I had any proverbial fruit to declare.