I love your story !! We're retired and spend several weekends traveling around the northwest. Every time we decide to stay for a day or so, I tell my DH that I just have to go to the local quilt stores, because, as I tell him, all quilters everywhere do that in support of their local quilt stores. He rolls his eyes and plugs the address into the GPS. His question is usually "how expensive was it for you to support the LQS?" But he happily tags along with me because he also has hobbies that the "local hobby store" caters to and I tag along with him on his quests.