World Fantasy Con 2014 Trip ( Read more... )

Once again my wife and I made plans to attend Worldcon, Loncon 3. In 2014 it was in London, UK, at the ExCel convention center in the Docklands area of the city down-river from the downtown areas best known. This year was more complex because Eurocon, Shamrokon, was in Dublin, Ireland, the following weekend. To further complicate our plans, my wife ( Read more... )

San Diego Comic Con 2014 Review ( Read more... )

LibertyCon 27 / Westercon 67 (2014) Review ( Read more... )

Lep40 was held at the Phoenix Marriott Mesa Hotel (aka Mesa Marriott) in downtown Mesa, AZ. The traditional dates of Mothers Day Weekend were observed once again. And, once again, I was both Hotel Liaison and Treasurer ( Read more... )

Spokane Visit March 2014 ( Read more... )

This year was the 31st annual SMOFcon event. Secret Masters Of Fandom was a phrase coined many years ago by author and fan Jack Chalker as a joke. It took and it is still used today. It is primarily made up of fans who volunteer to run Worldcon (World Science Fiction Convention), but also run other similar events. This year it was in Toronto, ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving Weekend (November 2013) is LosCon every year in Los Angeles. We usually drive over Thursday (Thanksgiving Day), check into the con hotel (LAX Marriott), attend the convention, check out of the con hotel on Monday and drive home. Once again we followed our tradition ( Read more... )

World Fantasy Convention 2013 was held in Brighton, UK, over Halloween Weekend. My wife and I attended the event as I'm on their Board of Directors, having chaired WFC2004 in Tempe, AZ ( Read more... )

I'm way behind on writing about our trips, so here is a review of our trip to the Pacific Northwest in September/October 2013 ( Read more... )