[Sca-cooks] Driving times

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Interesting Inter-Kingdom Anthropology here.

Paraphrasing Jeff Foxworthy:  "If two hours is a long drive or a short court,
you just might be a Caidan."  Within a two-hour drive of where I'm sitting right
now, I can reach 6 baronies [Altavia, Angels, Lyondemere, Dun Or, Dreiburgen,
Gyldenholt -- maybe Calafia if we really punch it]  and 4 shires [Heatherwyne,
Darach, Isles, Wintermist].  We mostly don't =need= two-day events, although the
ones we have are well-loved and well-attended.

The exceptions are the wars of course, and Collegium Caidis.  Two days are
getting to be not long enough for the number of classes!  We also have the
highly in-demand Winter Weekend, a January post-Twelfth-Night getaway in the
snowy mountains over Dreibergen, and Darachshire's Black Oak Lodge on the first
weekend of Spring, where they let me run rampant over their kitchen, hee hee
hee.  Contrary to the "Caidans melt in the rain" rumor, we just moved the rapier
fighting indoors and had a perfectly swell time this past year.

Longer drives are generally acceptable for Potrero or Highland War, or if one of
the major kingdom events is in one of the "outlying" areas of Continental Caid,
like Nordwache [Fresno] or Starkhafn [Las Vegas].  I didn't go to Twelfth Night
in Starkhafn last year though;  the drive was long and the banquet was catered,
so as Phlip says, there was not much to offer me that time.

Selene, Caid

Phlip wrote:

> I really think it depends on the value of the event to you, as to how far
> you're willing to drive. When I lived in the MK, there were very few events
> in a less than two hour drive from where I lived, and those tended to be
> done by our local groups. Many of those closest to me I didn't attend,
> simply because there was nothing interesting about that event to me. OTOH, I
> cheerfully drove 14 hours over to EK Crown, for a chance to work in
> Adamantius' kitchen, and about 6 hrs to help Iasmine with MK Coronation. I
> also had a couple of events that I really liked attending in the Dayton
> area- about 4 hours away.
>
> Johan and Kim drove 12 hours from Ohio to attend the Metal Smith's
> Symposium. I drove a couple hours (originally) to cook with Avraham, in New
> York. OTOH, the only reason I went to the Simple Faire event was because it
> was only half an hour away, or so- I probably wouldn't have gone if it had
> been a greater distance- not because there was anything wrong with the
> event, but because it didn't have anything special of interest to me.
>
> So, I'd say that it really depends on what the event offers you.
>
> Phlip
>
> Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> And never a rider who cain't be throwed....