by MillerSA15 » Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:44 pm
By my calculations this will cost me, ballpark, $1000 to attend.
The bulk of the cost is in cost of the event, and the cost of not being at work for 11 days (unless someone figures out a way to teleport me there and back, with gear). ~$600.
Then there is the cost of traveling. At this point driving looks like the best option. Having a buddy split the cost (and driving time (which is like 32 hours of driving)) puts this cost right around $200.
The only part that isn't really set is cost to get into kit. The Russian group is the only one I have the guns for, but I would rather go US (unless I am informed that I will get plenty of time on some quality Russian NVGs if I go Russian; not to sound stupid, but if I travel all the way to this thing, where people will be using NVGs to the point they are sick of them, I better be one of those people or I will be very disappointed). I am pretty willing to pay $200 to get all the kit to go, which brings me to my grand total estimate of $1000.
As you can see, most of that is set, and there is no easy way to make it lower.