Ingredients for a good meet are:
- A meeting place at the geographic center of attendees
- Good, inexpensive food where we can be a little loud w/o disturbing others
- A large parking lot or open area for showing off VXs w/o blocking traffic
- Located for an easy one-day trip for outlyers (Not too far from I-5)
- A good backdrop for photo op
Long Beach is beautiful and fun, but would be a entire weekend event that would be more complicated with lodging, meals and family considerations. Attendance would be lower. I think it depends on if we want a more mundane meeting place with more participants, or the converse. Just my $.02