[honeychile]

FWIW, I'm one of those people who HATES to stay with another person. I tell people that I've done my time in "roommate hell", and vastly prefer to have some place to have down time alone. Yet, everyone I know who has been to a VLS or Convention has talked for years about what a wonderful sister they met from some other place. I'd probably at least try the roomie there. Oh, I understand that most roomies exchange gifts from their hometown, too.