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Sigh -

I'm beginning to wonder if we'll make it this year. The loss of our primary hotel is turning out to be a greater set-back than imagined. Right now it seems the only available places are going for $350 a night or more. A steep price for any accommodation, but these are for one and two star hotels.

I have a list of smaller accommodations not found on the major travel reservation systems, but that means spending a good chunk of time on the phone getting a place in the $200 a night price range with little foreknowledge of what exactly we're getting.

Another alternative is it seems a number of enterprising people have booked reservations for many of the available rooms and are selling the reservations on eBay. All hail the Capitalist market, but it irks me to bid $100 for the chance to get into a Motel 6.

For the same potential cost of going this year, we could go to Tokyo for a week. Not to mention the potential for trips to SF (Vivian Westwood) or NYC (Hi Steph) - not to mention the amount of CDs we could buy, or shows at the Troubadour and other venues. I love Coachella, love the variety of music, the scene - but I'm starting to wonder if maybe we should look into Glastonbury or some other Euro festival and make a real vacation of it.

I still have an email in to the Lautner to see if they might reopen in time, but I'm not holding my breath.