I love Madison -- I guess my one caveat would be: are there alot of direct flights from anywhere to Madison?
Or would people fly into Chicago and meet up and drive to Mad-city?
Old trusty soda machine. I push you for root beer, you give me Coke.
Willow ,'End of Days'
F2F 4: Too Much Candy, Never Enough Mojitos.
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon: Madison, WI from June 20-22 2008! Official website.
sumi - Jun 08, 2007 3:20:24 pm PDT #5994 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Fred Pete - Jun 08, 2007 4:05:48 pm PDT #5995 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
I don't know about direct flights, but there used to be a regular (as in, several times daily) bus to and from O'Hare. But it's about a 3 hour ride each way.
While Madison is lovely during the warmer months, it's too close to people I prefer to avoid.
tommyrot - Jun 08, 2007 4:15:52 pm PDT #5996 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
While Madison is lovely during the warmer months, it's too close to people I prefer to avoid.
The first F2F was about three blocks from work for me. I was slightly nervous my bosses would run into me and wonder who were all the weird people I was hanging out with.
SailAweigh - Jun 08, 2007 4:16:54 pm PDT #5997 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Depends on the airline and the city, but just about everything comes through Chicago first or whatever city is used for that airline's hub (Delta, for example, goes through Cincinatti.) If folks wanted to carpool it from Chicago for the sake of having a car, that would definitely be feasible. But the daily cost over the weekend and mileage could still make it more expensive than flying into Madison.
brenda m - Jun 08, 2007 4:55:22 pm PDT #5998 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Milwaukee is also a reasonable place to fly in to to get to Madison. Either Chi or MKE are okay, we'd just need to plan things out a little more than usual.
Ginger - Jun 08, 2007 6:35:47 pm PDT #5999 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Did anyone ever admit to bringing the Vietnamese vodka to the Atlanta hospitality suite? I ask because I finally tasted it. It's faintly reminiscent of hazelnuts. I looked it up and it turns out to be rice vodka, and, according to the distiller's website:
At the palate, a kind of softened and passionate flavour that pull us into ecstasy of happiness. The attractive yeasts mingle and intertwine with glutinous rice fragrance behind green bamboo ranges, beside the alluvial Red river holding lotus flavour in the ponds. Nep Moi taste intertwines and fascinates anyone who enjoys once to remember forever.
tommyrot - Jun 08, 2007 7:21:44 pm PDT #6000 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I looked it up and it turns out to be rice vodka, and, according to the distiller's website:
Does it taste at all like sake?
-t - Jun 08, 2007 7:27:54 pm PDT #6001 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Were you pulled into an ecstasy of happiness?
tommyrot - Jun 08, 2007 7:33:13 pm PDT #6002 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I don't think she needed any pulling....
esse - Jun 09, 2007 12:25:01 am PDT #6003 of 10002
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I'd like either Madison or Nashville. Madison because I could probably schedule myself a couple weeks to come home and go to Kalamazoo in Michigan as well. and Nashville because that is pretty much my hometown, I have family and friends there, and it's a damn fine place to have some fun.