From 2007 to 2011, every year sometime in March I traversed to the Milwaukee area to attend the Midwest Gaming Classic (MGC). It is a retro video game convention filled with many vendors, community events, speakers and also has a ton of fellow gaming friends I get to meet up with once a year with as we all indulge in our favorite hobby. 2012 was the first year I missed attending because I went to Miami last year for Wrestlemania, which coincidentally was within a week of MGC, and there was no way I was going to be able to make both of those happen.
So one of my resolutions for this year was to return to MGC. Usually it is a cheaper trip because the last few times I went there I drove down with my brother and two other friends. It was a straight 11 hour shot down I94, and with gas split four ways it was usually pretty travel efficient. It was not meant to be this year however as my brother and friends cannot make it this year. I would have made the drive myself, but I decided to make this a two part vacation and will end up flying down instead.
After spending the weekend in Milwaukee I will be flying down to Washington DC to take in its renowned sights and attractions and visit my dad and uncle. History was always my favorite class in school, so Washington DC has always been a dream destination of mine to check out the memorials and museums. My dad is currently on a vacation in Georgia visiting my two sisters, he drove down there a month and a half back and was planning on visiting a few other family and friends in Florida, Michigan and DC on the way back. When I told him I was thinking of checking out DC right after Milwaukee this year a few months back, he offered to tweak his schedule a little bit so he can meet up with me in DC for a few days, and offered to ride back home with him.
So this is quite the ambitious vacation, and I got quite a bit planned. Hopefully everything will go down without incident. Though I am almost counting on some kind of vehicle malfunction on the way back home with Dad. That was almost always a given on our yearly family trips growing up. I will be out of town for a bit, but look forward to my next blog which will probably be a lengthy recap of my travels.
Before I go, since it will be a little longer than usual for my next update here is something to tide you by. Some of my favorite On Tap episodes have been our yearly MGC recap episodes where we dissect the craziness that transpired over the weekend, have many fun tales and go over all the gaming loot we picked up. The 2010 and 2011 recap episodes were fun to record because we taped them live at MGC itself, so you can hear all the ambient noises of the event as it is taking place, and hear a few spontaneous guest host cameos to in the midst of the madness. Just right click on each year to download the corresponding podcast:
2007 | 2008 |
2009 | 2010 |
2011
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