Then our paths have crossed already. I was in Denver and San Antonio.

>> The USA was just so....big <<

And Australia isn't? Or is it that the US is big enough to look big by Australian standards? Interesting to think about either way.

>> Oh, and I also went to Washington twice to visit the Smithsonian. Those were sort of pilgrimages. <<

Maybe you'll do it again for next year's Worldcon.

We originally were thinking of checking out Australia this year as part of our Southern Hemisphere trip. That was before the events of the past couple of months. I mentioned that I thought visiting Australia in July would feel too much to me like visiting New Orleans five or six months after Hurricane Katrina. Too much of the population has been affected by the tragedy for me to want that in my memories of the place.

Hope you and yours are doing OK and taking care of one another and your friends.