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[sraun]

iraunink and I are dropping Convergence, and thinking about going to one or two out-of-town (to us, Minneapolis, MN) cons.

We have already committed to Minicon and Convivial (local relaxacon, Oct 19-21, 2007).

We've already decided we're willing to drive as far as Chicago. We're not certain about Detroit, so somewhere in the 7-12 hours (call it 600 miles driving?) looks to be our limit.

Anyone care to suggest alternatives? No, flying is not an option - if it was, Boskone would be on the list! Alternatively, any politicking for or against any of these?

2007 SF Conventions

Dates	Convention	Location	Notes
Already Bought Memberships
Apr 6-8	Minicon	Twin Cities, MN	Minn-StF's big convention
Oct 19-21	Convivial	Twin Cities, MN	Minn-StF's relaxacon
Potential Others
Jan 19-21	ConFusion	Troy, MI – Detroit Suburb
Feb 8-11	Capricon	Chicago, IL	GoH LMB, Erin McKee [prereg deadline 12/31/06]
Mar ?	Congenial	Racine, WI	Largish relaxacon
Apr 13-15	Odyssey Con	Madison, WI
Apr 20-22	Penguicon	Troy, MI – Detroit Suburb	GoH's Bruce Schneier, John Kovalic, Elizabeth Bear, Charlie Stross
May 4-6	Bacon	Brooklyn Center, MN	kalmn is helping run
May 18-20	Demicon	Des Moines, IA
May 25-28	WisCon	Madison, WI
Jun ?	Duckon	Naperville, IL – Chicago Suburb
Aug ?	Diversicon	Twin Cities, MN
(Oct ?)	Icon	Cedar Rapids, IA	2007 canceled – may be resurrected
Oct ?	ValleyCon	Fargo, ND
Nov ?	WindyCon	Chicago, IL

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I haven't been in a few years, but Keycon up in Winnipeg has always been a lot of fun.

I'm sorry to hear about Icon -- we decided to do Convivial rather than Icon this year ourselves.

It's quite out of date, but I liked Capricon better than Windycon last time I was there.

It's so out of date as to nearly be irrelevant, but I had fun at Ad Astra for some years.

An option for planning some air travel later is to pick a couple of writers and look where they're being guests, and pick a con to try (after some research, so it's not a completely random poke). On that basis (well, and also because Lydy lived in Pittsburgh for a while) we went to Confluence and had a great time in 2000.