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ething for the Yanks to keep in mind: Distance in North America!= Distance in
Britain as travel goes.

I know people who say commuting 20 miles in many parts of England can take
rather ridiculous amounts of time. The Old World was not so well designed for
the automobile it seems. And gas prices are nothing short of insane.

I commute 200 km to a game to see my old college/uni friends about 1
month.
I commute down to Pennsylvania (9 hours drive) once or twice a year -
GZG ECC and sometimes Historicon. I haven't been to a Gen Con since 1987 and
it is way too far away now. Origins I got to once and enjoyed myself, but not
half as much as ECC.

I think the smaller shows are actually much more fun and ECC, being so focused
(for a generic series of games...), means you get a nice bunch of people with
fairly similar interests. Origins was neat for seeing new games I'd never see
or otherwise own (Fear God and Dreadnaught, FOW, some crazy Flying Circus type
of WWI plane game, etc). But I have more fun at ECC than I ever do at the big
cons.

(Has my subtle plug for our next impending ECC helped?)

Our regular disappointment is not having Sr.Tuffley himself. I also miss DLD's
folks who seem to be kind of in some sort of limbo at this time. But we get a
lot of support from Jon and a lot of organizational work out of Jon, Jer, and
Mr 'my dice are all 1s'.

I honestly can't imagine another convention that's as much fun as ECC. Anyone
missing it is really missing out.

> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Tom B <kaladorn@gmail.com> wrote:

Ummm... have you looked at a map? :-)

It's _closer_ to you now than when it was in Milwaukee.

Toronto to Milwaukee - 12 hours.

Toronto to Indianapolis - 9 hours.

Granted you have to come from Ottawa, but you're actually closer to the
current location for GenCon than when it was in Wisconsin.

> But I have more fun at ECC than

The ECC is too far away for me, especially given that I'd have to drive across
the country in the winter.