[Lavapicker]

Its kind of funny that all the reasons listed are the things we've been bringing up for years about Hawaii teams going to the Mainland to compete. For those of us on the other Islands we still have the same issues of transportation (Interisland airfare, rental car), meals and housing. We're hoping to have enough money left after our trip to compete in the Japan Microbots competition but its not looking good. The darn Yen is way down this year.