{"id":1089,"date":"2008-09-25T07:15:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T11:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2008-09-17T19:23:46","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T23:23:46","slug":"fannish-vacation-destinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"Fannish Vacation Destinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Las Vegas&#8217; Star Trek: The Experience is closing, what&#8217;s an SF fan to do?  Actual space tourism is beyond the pocketbook of most of us geeks, but fortunately there are plenty of other options.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=927\">Atomic Tourism<\/A> we&#8217;ve mentioned previously, there&#8217;s the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, dozens of observatories, Space Camp, Dr. Who Tours, and loads more.  Check out <A HREF=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5045350\/destinations-for-your-next-scifi-themed-vacation\">this list<\/A> for places to spend your next vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, Shadow and I use <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.wsfs.org\/\">WorldCon<\/A> as an excuse to visit places we wouldn&#8217;t otherwise venture.  The Other*Worlds*Cafe almost always has a few members present every year, and we always plan a meetup.  If you&#8217;re a convention newbie and would like to meet a few friendly faces, <A HREF=\"mailto:chip@other-worlds-cafe.com\">drop us a line<\/A> around convention time; we&#8217;ll be happy to show you the ropes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Las Vegas&#8217; Star Trek: The Experience is closing, what&#8217;s an SF fan to do? Actual space tourism is beyond the pocketbook of most of us geeks, but fortunately there are plenty of other options. Besides the Atomic Tourism we&#8217;ve mentioned previously, there&#8217;s the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, dozens of observatories, Space Camp, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}