cons and traveling
Jun. 1st, 2004 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflyI'm reading about various people having gone to Balticon, and having had a friend talk about how she wanted to go but didn't, it's making me think about cons and traveling. I've gone to various cons - started with filk cons, ConChords back in the early 90's in the LA area, then eventually went to several LosCons and a WesterCon. And last February we went to ConDFW. But I've never traveled to a con. I've stayed at the hotel sometimes, but always because it was more convenient, and I wanted to stay late, have a place for my stuff, etc. I've gone to LA area cons when I lived in the LA area, and now one DFW area con now that I live in Fort Worth.
I find myself a little amazed at the thought of long-distance traveling for cons. Which is odd, since I've been surrounded by people at these cons who did do such travel. I suppose at my early cons all the people I actually *knew* at the cons were locals, or were pros of some sort - yeah, I knew Leslie Fish was traveling for these, obviously, but that's what she does. Anybody else I knew at the con I knew locally. Nowadays, with the Bujold list, that's changed quite a bit.
I suppose some of it is amazement at having the income available for that kind of travel. Yet another reason for us to get out of debt, yes. But in general I haven't pulled off a lot of travel. Hm, lemme think, travel out of metropolitan area I lived in, as an adult that hasn't involved going to either my parents' house or my in-laws house, that would be... hm. Well, we went to Las Vegas to work the RenFaire there once. We had the drive to Texas to move here. And I think that's IT. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
selenite, am I forgetting something?)
We're starting to think about traveling to some cons, I don't know yet whether we can pull it off or not. The logistics of dealing with the kids may be the toughest part.
I find myself a little amazed at the thought of long-distance traveling for cons. Which is odd, since I've been surrounded by people at these cons who did do such travel. I suppose at my early cons all the people I actually *knew* at the cons were locals, or were pros of some sort - yeah, I knew Leslie Fish was traveling for these, obviously, but that's what she does. Anybody else I knew at the con I knew locally. Nowadays, with the Bujold list, that's changed quite a bit.
I suppose some of it is amazement at having the income available for that kind of travel. Yet another reason for us to get out of debt, yes. But in general I haven't pulled off a lot of travel. Hm, lemme think, travel out of metropolitan area I lived in, as an adult that hasn't involved going to either my parents' house or my in-laws house, that would be... hm. Well, we went to Las Vegas to work the RenFaire there once. We had the drive to Texas to move here. And I think that's IT. (
selenite, am I forgetting something?)We're starting to think about traveling to some cons, I don't know yet whether we can pull it off or not. The logistics of dealing with the kids may be the toughest part.
