Not only am I jealous of all of you who got to attend, I'm more jealous of your MPG. Holy crap! We took a trip about 4 years ago at it managed 25mpg, these days if I get 18 on the highway I consider myself lucky and chances are the hubby is driving it. It's worse when I drive, derned old lead foot. We're going to TX (home sweet home) in a couple of weeks and at $4/gal, I'm going to have to mind my manners, or just let the hubby drive.
If the hubby had more than 5 vacation days in a year we would be there without a doubt, no matter what it cost us to drive from AZ. I love to talk about my truck (GM can confirm that) and talk to others about their's as well.