On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Adam Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Snipped lots of good stuff.
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Jim Henry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > > (4) Making sure those traveling can get to where they need to get to,
> and
> > have somewhere to sleep.
> >
> > Travel is the main disadvantage of Athens, GA over Atlanta; Athens
> > would be less expensive and is more fun than most neighborhoods of
> > Atlanta, but options for getting there are limited; you can fly direct
> > only from a couple of other cities, or you can take a bus from Atlanta
> > or some other nearby cities, or drive yourself.  UGA in Athens is also
> > the only university in Georgia we have conlanger contacts with.
> >
> >
> >
>
> I'd like to have one in Dallas, and travel would be one of the big
> advantages of having it here -- equally convinient to both coasts, one of
> the busiest airports in the world.


Ahh, that would be "equally INconvenient to both coasts". I'm in Ohio,
and Dallas is still too far for me.

stevo


> Dallas has no shortage of restaurants
> and hotels at all price ranges.  But I graduated a couple of decades ago,
> and so don't have the "university connections."  Mensa conferences are
> usually held in hotels as are most of the smaller religious conferences I
> have attended (the big ones tend to be in stadium-sized conference
> centers),
> but hotel conferences may be inherently more expensive than the
> university-based model the LCC has been running on.  Would a smaller hotel
> with conference rooms be out of the question?
>
> Adam
>