I grow weary of seeing all of the civillians that will attend this year creating threads about such. I was going to go this year, until about the beginning of may, until I realised that my absolute maximum bugeted gas price of $3.50/gallon wasn't going to cut it. I've wanted to go to one of these meets since at least 2006, if only to meet you all. I thought that by not driving to new york in may (as i've had planned for a while) would be enough to offset the cost of going to chicago, but that didn't work out. Borrowing a chevy aveo, flying out of a different airport, nothing is going to cut it unfortunately. anyone else that was going to go before gas prices increased rapidly?