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I'll travel anywhere.

The only really bad times for me are January and Feburary, for work reasons.

ok Wondercon i would be down for,..if i start saving now,...was thinking about NY Comic-con,..but i might pass for SD next year,..at first i was gonna pass but Frak it,..i'll be there by hook or by crook.

I'm up for another gathering... be it con related or not. I was thinking of the NYCC in Feb, but I know that's a bit soon for everyone. Disney would be fun, as would Vegas- plenty to do if it's not about a con.

Vegas baby!

I traveled to Vegas one a month of over a year for work. I got to know the city pretty well. I need to go back and gamble!

Well, I probably can't commit to anything at all until at least after the start of 2009, as by then I hope things will have settled down money-wise after getting married (did I just hear every married persons say 'ha!'?). Another trip to California may not be doable, but I don't want to count anything out.

If air-fair every drops back down really low, lets all just buy lots of tickets somewhere so we don't miss the opportunity

Also--maybe not next year, maybe not even in (2) years, but I think a huge plethora of we Americans should make the trip to London/UK and meet our brethen across the pond. Something else else to consider...but maybe one day...

<----------------shotgun rooming with CJ again for next meet-up! Cali is welcome too!

I don't think I'd be up for anything until spring, either a long weekend, or during my spring break in mid-March.

next summer's up in the air for me.

I like the post-Thanksgiving idea for WDW, but I have no idea where I'll be by then.

I would suggest we spread these gatherings around so as to best allow those who usually cannot make them to attend.

Summer, outside of a specific con/event, might be best avoided given high-season travel costs.

Maybe we could get into a spring/fall trend?

Maybe...
Spring 09 - Pacific NW?
Fall 09 - WDW?
Spring 10 - Vegas?
Fall 10 -Mid-Ohio or Baltimore?

There's nothing to stop individual/spontaneous Con and non-con meet-ups as well, of course, but a tough schedule might help people who need more lead time to plan.

I'm there!

Another idea for y'all...

Two words:

MARDI GRAS

w00t w00t!

[roof-raising motions]

You did notice that you are an afterthought to rooming with CJ?

Is that really surprising?

Count me in with the Rat!

This goes without saying for every Legion World meet up!

In theory I'll go just about anywhere for a meet up, considering my last one got cut super short and I had to miss all the good stuff.
(btw thanks for the care package nightcrawler and kent Shakespeare)

But I'd love to a see a con or part of the country I've never been to yet. (basically most of the mid-west and east coast is open). With that in mind it's mostly a factor of when, where, and how much are plane tickets going to go up in the mean time?

WDW would be oh so awesome if we did a non-con thing. Mostly for afore mentioned reasons of: we would have other things to see and do but all in a centralized location where we can split up. Also you really can bring other people and they would have fun too (who doesn't like an oversized mouse).

I'd also like to throw the idea for a non-con thing of maybe doing a cruise somewhere.
Yes this would in fact be a bigger undertaking, however a lot of the smaller issues would then be taken care of.
Fun for the whole family (check)
Rooms in a block area (check)
centralized meeting area (check)
Yummy food/drinks (check)
entertainment/nightlife (check)
stuff to see and do alone or with the group (check)
things we can do in groups big and small (check)
semi-cost effective (half check.. but if you plan in advance you can start saving now)
seeing things we haven't seen before (check!)
and fun filled memories to be had by all (big freakin' check)
Oh and if we have actual group of more than 10 people going we can get the discount group rate (basically the more people going the better discount you get). So just throwing the idea out there.

A restaurant owner when the health department is in the restaurant?

Don't spoil Ratatouille for people who haven't seen it, Quis!

Hopefully I can make a gathering next time.

I've always wanted to go see Las Vegas.

I haven't been to Walt Disney World in about 32 years, so I could do that too.

I'm not too far from Chicago, so I could swing that as well. (Think I could actually take the train to go there.)

Tell you what, since it put me in the hospital when we got back to Salt Lake (from cellulitis in my legs from swelling) I will NEVER walk around Las Vegas in 108 degree heat again. I love Vegas, and I will not regret getting to see the musical BITE at the Stratosphere, but the heat and strain of walking the strip in that temperature was sheer hell. Lucky Darden and Jen didn't melt, being from the UK....

Scott, Stacey and I want to go to Disney World. We absolutely had a ball at Disney Land, although by that point I was starting to limp and to slow everyone down. Anywhere we go I can rock it if we do it in the colder months, I promise!

So Blue, what else does Chi-Town have to offer besides urban chupacabras???? Kidding, I've wanted to visit Chicago since 1990 when I wanted to meet my favorite vampire/singer and his band, Vlad and the Dark Theater, at the Vampire Circus and Horror Con. I wonder if they still even have that?

Chicago has a lot of interesting architecture, if they haven't torn it down to build big ugly condos. I just got a glimpse of it when I was at the Wizard Con two years ago. It certainly appeared to be vampire-worthy!

Small gatherings of six or less have worked well without cons - Vegas 06 (can't speak for 08) and Niagara 05 come to mind. But the higher we go into the double-digits the more your points will take on additional validity.

then again, a camping trip (or cabins) where there is deliberately little to do also solves that problem.

Individual cabins, and I'm thinking more like small homes, not a one-room 4-wall shed, or one big lodge where everyone has their own bedroom and bathroom but share living space and kitchen areas.... This idea of a gathering would be a dream for Scott and I, and our friend Stacey would love it too I think. I would love to accept responsibility for cooking for the group and/or organizing the grocery and supply buying and sharing chef duties with other Legion World chefs. That would be so much fun for me in and of itself. Leaving others free to immerse themselves in all things comic (that I don't get all the way, even after all these years with Scott, LOL)

For most of my life I have seen movies where extended family and friends gather at these cabin-lodge type homes and share vacations and holidays and it always looked like a lot of fun. (Except for the ones where the basis of the movie was a horror situation! Let's not recreate one of those please) Admittedly most of these took place in the Hamptons, which has a vague dreamy, happy feel to me since 'Dirty Dancing.' But there must be such places scattered all over the United States. Not that anyone would want to come to Utah, but specifically here I know there are lodges in Park City (home of the 2002 Winter Olympics) and in the southern end of the state (near the 4-corners area) adjacent to Zion National Park. At the Zion location there is a lodge that they promote for family reunions and business or religious retreats. It offers ten individual bedrooms, five full bathrooms with tubs and showers, and a huge kitchen area with four stoves. This place runs about $700 a night during peak season (summer of course) but split that up between however many Legion Worlders, and that's nothing!

Basically Kent, I totally dig your idea of getting back to nature and focusing on each other and not on the host city itself.

We could rent a polygamist compound while they're on vacation. Each Legion Worlder would get his or her own sister-wife cabin!

Sounds like a plausable idea SG. if you can get around the whole idea of it sounding like the setting for a slasher film.

(apologies for being anal: Dirty Dancing was set in the Catskills (but filmed in Virginia oddly enough) not the Hamptons, but plenty of cabin-ish Hampton settings have been filmed. the reality is beyond most of our price ranges)

There are lots of cabin-y areas worth going to all over the continent. Summer, of course, is high demand season (and the buggiest! in many places). I'll toss out the Adirondacks in October or the Canadian Rockies in May as suggestions.

Nobody puts Cali in a corner!

[takes Cali and flings her into the air]