Thanks Malcolm. I have to agree that it is pretty overwhelming and I can imagine that with some light pollution some of the clusters/nebulae that you need for hopping might be missing. I find some of the asterisms around the LMC handy to get some starting points and I've described some of these landmarks in the observing tips page of my site
http://cloudsofmagellan.net.au/lmcobservingtips.htm. I have just noticed that the link to this from the main menu is not there and that the page itself has some font problems and I've just sorted these things out.