Guys,
Please don't plan such a great set of ideas without two things... PLEASE!
1) NYS Sucks, School just ended this week. So the time table that both the AC and the IMP Conferences used were no good for us at all. The only reason we were able to attend IMP was because it was right next door in our neck of the woods. Had it been on the opposite coast we would have had to pass on it just as we did AC.
2) If I'm going to be near these wonders of North America I would never forgive myself if I didn't get my kids out there too. So item one applys twice over, but also whatever else we do we will need some sort of a place to safely let out kids hangout that doesn't break the bank.
My father the elementary school science teacher who thru me in the back of '73 225 slant-6 Dodge Dart for two months all summer long in the summer of '73 and took me to just about every national park, canyon, and fishing hole there was to be had, will be throwing lightening bolts down from where he sits now if I were to get that close and not bring my two kids along to get the education of a lifetime out there.
So please, please, please, cost, date and child care for families with school aged kids... Otherwise I will never forgive myself. We will either have to take a pass again or leave them behind and that is just dead wrong. Thanks much.
Paul and Nancy
