More budget-friendly, yes, but... Australia! Vineyards! Dropbears!
(although I suspect this falls under the same rule I had for Japan -- if I'm going, I don't want to spend 2-4 days cooped up in a convention center. The advantage of the job is that ALL trips are research trips, so I don't have to hang it off a convention. And yet.... it would be really cool, and I do have a handful or so of Australian readers....)
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(although I suspect this falls under the same rule I had for Japan -- if I'm going, I don't want to spend 2-4 days cooped up in a convention center. The advantage of the job is that ALL trips are research trips, so I don't have to hang it off a convention. And yet.... it would be really cool, and I do have a handful or so of Australian readers....)