I love the the stats feature, and look forward to a each new post. In today's analysis, though, the use of Census divisions skews the results. When we lived in the East South Central Census division, we were within easy drives (<8 hours) of shows in both the East North Central and South Atlantic divisions. During November 1998, we were actually able to string together six consecutive shows in three Census divisions and use only one vacation day.

Now we live in the Mountain division, and the closest shows are a minimum of 500 miles from home. (Yes, we knew this when we moved here and, for any given distance, the driving is much easier than east of the Mississippi, so I'm not complaining.) But to even flirt with the idea that Denver and San Francisco--which are 1300 miles apart--are in the same region is just silly. Remember, that's the same distance from NYC to Miami, a distance about which I seem to recall much wailing and gnashing of teeth just a few months ago...