I still wonder just how much interface DARA has with the Hara Arena between shows. If you think about it, the inside exhibits are nothing more than a conglomeration of cubes. There's no reason to believe that DARA couldn't host the Hamvention in another regional location; Columbus, or Cincinnati.perhaps. Other organizations hold their conventions around the country, so why couldn't DARA? I've heard that renting the renting the entire Hara complex isn't cheap, so what keeps Hamvention there? No doubt a big reason is familiarity. Everybody knows the drill, year after year. Whether you're hopping on the shuttle, queing up for a scooter rental, or negotiating the pothole, crater ridden back driveway to pull into the tailgate area, we all know the drill. DARA knows it too. It's all familiar.... all too familiar, and familiarity certainly does breed complacency. But why move it? Every May, we come, 24,500 strong this this year, and we spend. Can you imagine the amount of currency being exchanged in that decrepit pit for those three days? I had one of those moments this year as I was waiting to use the "lavatory". There I was standing there, with a three thousand dollar wad in my pocket, waiting to take a wiz in a crappy (literally) port-o-john. Don't I deserve better? Don't we all deserve better? It's an embarrassment to see the G's, the PY's, the JA's, the DL's, and the rest of DX attendees walking the fleamarket, stumbling into the deep potholes that litter the shabby parking lot. It makes a person, proud of his country want to apologize to our visitors, "It's not like this everywhere, really it is isn't!" But why bother to move it to a new location. They put the show on every year and we come, leaving behind million's of dollars in the Dayton economy. It's not going to change until the Hara is demolished, or we stop coming..