The Gathering: In Texas This Year

[Halbarad]

Houston is probably out then, as it's a good 3-3.5 hour drive from Austin at a minimum. I -have- done day trips to Houston before (usually for things like airport pickups), but it's a pretty grueling day of driving for the person stuck doing it.

[Dracos]

Yeah, I don't think that'd be a good use of time, because unless we set up hotel room there too (complicated), that means everyone is stuck in the car for 6 hours of one day.  Not fun for all involved methinks.

[Iron Dragoon]

Sounds like we'd want either late april/early may, or late september/early october.

For time-frame, I think it's going to come down to what's most feasible for everyone. Who has issues with April/May? Issues with Sept/Oct?

I'm up for either.

[Halbarad]

Sept/Oct will likely work better for me, as I'm eyeballing a rotation at work that'll probably run from May until sometime in August or September (and it'll be much easier to get time off late during the rotation rather than early).

The one caveat during October is the Austin City Limits music festival, which will be running Oct. 4-6 and again Oct. 11-13. Live music fans would probably love it, everyone else will despise it since it'll make finding hotel space a complete bitch.

[Iron Dragoon]

I know, typical Iddy stuff, but is anyone interested in going shooting at this thing? If anyone wants to go for like an hour or two, or however long, I can bring some of mine and teach whoever's interested.

[Merc]

As I mentioned in PM, I don't have that much interest, but if it's an activity we end up having at the gathering, I'd give it a shot probably.

[Halbarad]

I'd be interested, definitely. Been thinking about getting a gun soon anyway.

[Brian]

Actually, me too....

Not that I'd try traveling with it. :x

[Iron Dragoon]

Well, that's two/three, so I guess it's a go. I don't think a range trip will take more than a couple hours, so it's not a heavy time commitment for anyone who doesn't want to go. You two hit me up in PM in IRC so I can figure out what to bring a bit better.

[Dracos]

Okay.  It can be an event :)

The magic of event planning.  Doubling as test posting.  Okay, so we've got one late year call.  *nods*

[Dracos]

Small updates. :)  I'll probably be fleshing this out further over the next few months since it seems a later half of the year thing.

[tabyk]

If it's in the September/October time frame I might be able to pull it off this year (my vacation in March is likely to wipe me out financially).

Someone please poke at me once a more definitive date range is settled on.  :-)

[Dracos]

It's pretty much a given it will be in that time frame right now.  It's definitely not going to be febuary/march/april.

[Yuthirin]

We'll probably rent a vehicle or two.  Hopefully we have someone comfortable with driving a large van.  I'm not, but historically it's been a 'bad choice' every time we've split up with multiple vehicles.

Usually these gatherings are <10 people, cuz we're a smaller hangout group than DL.  So it won't be a big deal hopefully for house size.  That said, we'll definitely be using a hotel as a main base because it is not cool imposing for some long period of days.

I'd like to go, and I have experience renting large vans and I get a discount through Enterprise!

[Dracos]

Cool.  That is welcome, Yuth.  When we get closer, I'll coordinate with you on making that happen :)  Once we get an idea on how many are coming.

I think this would be the first time I've seen you in person, Yuth :)