It’s $125 to register, plus $50 if I want to attend the awards banquet. Then the hotel is $165 a night, which for three nights translates into roughly $500. Assuming I can even get into the convention hotel at this point. Just getting a passport would cost me $97. And the flight…well, I may be able to score a break here, if I can make use of my father’s Delta Sky Miles. I don’t know what sort of discount, exactly, I could swing…but even if somehow my flight is effectively, miraculously, $0…I’m still out of pocket close to $800. Plus transportation to and from the airport, incidentals, and anything I buy while in Calgary. I can fiddle with that number a little — stay only two nights, skip the banquet, etc. — but not enough to really bring it down to something I can easily afford. Especially not if I plan to attend this year’s Readercon in July and schedule that trip to Los Angeles I’ve been planning in September.