And here I'm coming all the way from Idaho.... and hoped to see you! (among all the other mega-fun fen)
Lol, actually I'll be in Madison Wisconsin at a conference (inaugural intl meeting of the Assoc. for Env Studies & Sciences! yee-hah!) and the flights from there to DC are actually doable, unlike my neck of the woods where it's 15 hours, 3 stops, and a thousand bucks to reach the center of the world, er, East Coast.
I'm arriving late (Sun afternoon) and mooching off Ven's and (hopefully) Spidermoth's hospitality overtime, all because I have to come record a Smithsonian exhibit (on dirt! Woot!) before it closes. Nerdishly, I plan to spend all day Tuesday at the Nat Hist museum and then hopefully coax Spidermoth to put me up for the night, since I fly out of Baltimore Wed am.
Heh. "Doing it for my dissertation" is possibly the only rationale in the world that sounds crazier than "it's a fandom thing" when it comes to traveling long distances just to squee madly!
But you - you can't be riding bicycles all weekend? Unless it's one of those cool bike-and-B&B adventures, which sound awesome. For, uh, those in really good shape, which is not me. *waves from porch as cyclists ride off*