You owe it to yourself to visit Ron's (astroron - at Cambroon) or Peter's (pyrmid - 10 Chain Hill) too sometime at new moon Hellman. Check out the Star Parties forum leading up to New Moon for what's happening at each site. You'll never strike 2 nicer hosts, and the rest of us hanger-ons can be tolerable most of the time.....
Peter is less than an hour from you, Ron about 1.75hrs drive.