“At two o`clock we took the railroad; the travelling on which was very slow, its construction being indifferent, and the ground wet and marshy; and arrived at Sandusky in time to dine that evening. We put up at a comfortable little hotel on the brink of Lake Erie, lay there that night, and had no choice but to wait there next day, until a steamboat bound for Buffalo appeared. The town, which was sluggish and uninteresting enough, was something like the back of an English watering-place, out of the season.”

--Charles Dickens, describing his trip to Sandusky, Ohio, 1842

Yep.  I’ll be attending CodeMash this year for the second time.  The conference is cheap, covers a wide swath of technology, and gives me another opportunity to mix with the locals…er, regionals.  It’s also relatively close, although there are no direct highway routes from Cincinnati.  Last year, I found myself wandering the back country of northern Ohio for hours (in the dark) wishing I’d packed my banjo.  Hopefully this year, my travel experience will be better.