Heh. I too think of Denver as part of "the middle" if not "the Midwest"!

We are the lone remaining continental time zone holdout state. All you people with your crazy time changing ways. Daylight savings, harumph.

Sniff. Indiana isn't a holdout anymore! :(

East coast, West coast, Flyover?

Time zones works as a rough measure, but there are outliers like Detroit which were mentioned above. I don't know that it needs to be a hard and fast rule.

I don't know that it needs to be a hard and fast rule.

It's like I don't even know you anymore!

East coast, West coast, Flyover?

That works.

And just CONUS? Because it's not likely we'll have an F2F in Hawaii or on an Alaska cruise?

I know, meara! Used to be I had family in Indiana and Hawaii and we lived in Arizona and we could all harumph at everybody, but now nsm.
 
Anyway, yeah, time zones would put Indiana on east coast, so I dunno.

Barring an F2F party plane that picks up every Buffista at their doorstep, I can't see a Hawaii or Alaska F2F being affordable options. (Which is a shame because both would be pretty awesome placed to visit with you guys.)

Barring an F2F party plane that picks up every Buffista at their doorstep, I can't see a Hawaii or Alaska F2F being affordable options. (Which is a shame because both would be pretty awesome placed to visit with you guys.)

Weren't we talking of Buffista Island actually being mobile, to go with the seasons? Who's to say we couldn't make it go so far as Hawaii and Alaska as the spirit moves?

If you're gonna dream, dream big.

However, I would say that the pimper/organizer should live in or have intimate knowledge of the city

Why?

Because what self-respecting city would want to be pimped by a total stranger?

which leads, of course, to the question of what self-respecting city would host us?