Rick,
I agree that the hotels offer a fun and relaxed meeting place. Have a few drinks and walk to your room.. Lots of laughs.. Lots of good hearted ribbing and putting faces to names. If there was some way to get everyone at the same three motels on Trabue it would be great... Maybe a big BBQ in the parking lots. Not sure they'd allow it but possibly...
I love the London gathering... Small town USA, funnel cakes and fried baloney sandwiches...
It doesn't take much to make me happy....