I've got a brother in Memphis, so I'd have additional incentive if someone were to pimp that, but I've heard that's not a particularly good walking city. Granted, I heard that about Atlanta too, and where we were for the F2F worked out just fine.

I could look into some possibilities. Some new downtown hotels have opened up since 2005. If we kept everything central to downtown, it'd just be two cab- or rental car-rides for each person flying in.

I don't mind Memphis, it is the Place 'O Matt.

brenda, Nashville was nominated last time the central's turn came around. As was Toronto.

Kansas City: walkable, cheap, jazz, steaks

Nashville, Toronto, and Minneapolis were all nominated last time. I am pro all of those cities. I am also pro-Madison.

I am NSM on the Dells.

I am Hell No on the Dells. Sorry. All of the downsides of overbuilt, overhyped family tourist traps, with none of that pesky convenience to anywhere you might actually be coming from.

But... but... but... they have a UFO museum.

But actually, not a good idea for the reasons brenda said.

Madison would be awesome. It's a beautiful city.

I want it on the record that The Dells was a completely facetious suggestion based on a recent MST viewing.

I was completely serious about Attica though.

t /kidding

Isn't the Dells within a (relatively) short drive north of Madison? Maybe if anyone sticks around an extra day after the F2F, we can have a road trip up there, just to see the tackiness that is The Dells.

I'd love it if it was in Madison, as well!

I assumed the Dells wasn't meant seriously. The one advantage would be the opportunity to shock the mundanes, which I so rarely get to do these days.

(ETA: Kathy, it's about an hour or so north of Madison. My family spent a lot of time camping near Portage, which is even closer to the Dells, when I was a kid. We only went to the Dells once, though, because my parents had no tolerance for overpriced tourist traps.)