This year I went to the GenCon 50 in
Indianapolis with a couple of pals (Kevin and Martin). We flew in and out of
Chicago via Iceland and drove to/from Indianapolis (it was a long first day). GenCon
is spread across several venues in downtown Indianapolis – the Convention
Centre, the Lucas Oil indoor football stadium and in several nearby hotels. It
also had a wide range of interests covered with a large trade hall, venues for
table top miniature and card/board game events and competitions, many rooms set
aside for role-play-games, parades for Cosplay, and talks, demos and films and
music. We had booked in to a few RGP events and Kevin was running a couple more,
so Martin and I did a thorough sweep of the trade hall. Again, the days were
long (but fun) and included some time playing purchases back at the hotel.
On our return leg, we stopped a night in
Chicago and had a wonder into town visiting Navy Pier, Grant Park – Buckingham
Fountain, the Agora and Cloud Gate (chrome jelly bean) sculptures, and listened
to some classical music at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion. The next day we had hoped
to visit the nearby football stadium but it was packed with people assembling
to watch the partial eclipse, so we gave that a miss and travelled to a nearby
park and watched it there before getting an ice-cream by the lake and heading
to the airport for our flight back.
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