Gen Con is the best! It's not morning to midnight games, it's 24/7. The exhibition floor is open from 10am-6pm, but the play hall never closes. There are events all day and all night. You never have to leave if you don't want to (but you should, for heaven's sake, eat, sleep, and bathe). You should eat Harry and Izzy's shrimp cocktail. Go to the Cardhalla Destruction on Saturday night. Stop and watch the troubadours in the halls. Check out the food trucks. Play a game in Lucas Oil Stadium (Gen Con takes over a professional American football stadium for the convention, as well as all the hotels and the convention center). Make friends in your hotel and play games in the lobby. Hope to see you there! Note - Americans tend to be effusively friendly, especially at an event like Gen Con. Don't be shy! Enjoy the US National Parks! We're pretty proud of them and they're stunning.
Very excited to learn you will attend GenCon 2024! I will watch for you. Usually I use GenCon to learn a few of the games I bought in previous years and haven't been able to play yet. I also am fortunate to GM for AEG's Big Game Night (Friday night) where we have a blast teaching about 800 gamers some of AEG's newest games. GenCon is lots of fun, but, lots and lots of gamers. In particular, watch the crowd anticipating the opening of the vendor hall on Thursday morning about 8 or 8:30 (I think) - a few thousand of us, requested NOT to run but walk, like kids in a candy store. Also, you are saying Las Vegas correctly, but most of us in America say "Lost Wages" - say it fast a few times. That's what happens in Vegas, yes, wages stay in Vegas :-). Safe travels ! I have some Norwegian in me (my namesake as my Great Grandfather immigrated from Norway to the U.S. around 1900).
My first Gen Con was Gen Con 20 if I recall correctly when it was still in Milwaukee, WI. We went every year for quite a while but only went once to Indy. It was fun but it's gotten a bit too crowded for us. Had I known sooner I'd have loved to have met you guys! Have fun!!!
Welcome to the United States! If you're beer drinkers, please ask the locals "what's a good craft beer here?" Or go to the local brew pub. The US has enormous numbers of different kinds of beer that you can get good beer. Just don't order the obvious brands. In Colorado, try anything by New Belgian Brewing Company. I like the Fat Tire. Rocky Mountain National Park is pretty but the east side is so full of people its more like a botanical garden. Drive around to the west side for more wildlife and less people. Just like Norway, the larger wildlife may not appreciate people getting too close. Pack a picnic lunch, the town of Grand Lake doesn't have enough restaurants for the number of tourists. Every state has different laws on buying alcohol too, so some places you can get anything at the grocery store, and others you have to go to the liquor store for the hard stuff, and others only have state run stores. Oh, yeah, rent a car. Only about five cities have decent public transportation. Pike's Peak is awesome too, you can see purple mountains majesty and amber waves of grain. But here, take the trolley to the top. You get to see a lot more.
How exciting!!! We'll be at Gen Con, and we are sooooo looking forward to meeting you both!! 😊 Safe travels!! Can't wait to see all your US adventures❤
I'm so jealous! Not that you're going to Gen Con, but because everyone at Gen Con has a chance to meet you. 😁 Your pronunciation of Las Vegas is pretty close: it's Spanish but anglicized, so the last vowel is dropped. Approximately "Lahs VAY-guss" or "VAY-giss." Either way, no one will have any trouble understanding you, they'll just know you're from out of town. Speaking of which, the state of Nevada is "Ne-VAD-ah", not "Ne-VAH-dah".
Wish my husband I could be there to meet you in person! Hope you have a wonderful time for your first trip to the US and to Gen Con! Love your YT channel! And I would say VAY-guss.
Have fun at GenCon. I was there last year for my first time. I worked in a booth so I did not get to play many games but it was still a lot of fun. I suggest stopping by the consignment room. There are a lot of rare and old games there.
LOL Your "Secret Sign" was first evr seen by me as a Kid whn watching the vry old Series, 'The Little Rascals'-! Look it up & watch some of the Episodes.... But I will try 2 look 4 u... I will be wrkng in the Artist/Authors area as Gencon Deputy. See U there!
Ah, thumbing your noses. (brief nostalgia interlude) My very first (of very many) trip to the Principal's Office was for thumbing my nose at someone during lunch. All downhill from first grade!
Hi! That secret sign has a name here in my country. We call it Panipipa! Hope you enjoy GenCon, guys. I`m eager to hear your impressions. Have a nice trip! ✈
Welcome. I hope I get a chance to meet you guys (you're one of my favorite channels). I'll be demoing for CGE so if you happen to be in their room (it's huge), please find me to say hello.
Visiting Indianapolis for your first trip to the US would be like me coming to Norway to visit your sanitation systems and garbage dumps. I hope Gencon is fun. Try some White Castle.
Haha, I think we’ll see many different things the different places we’re going, and Indianapolis is mostly for the games and people! Don’t really know anything about the city 😅
The pronunciation of Las Vegas in Norwegian is close to that in English. Because it's a Spanish name, meaning "The Meadows". Which makes them probably the hottest meadows in the world around the time you will be there. (As I write this, it's 42°C in Las Vegas. It gets hotter later in the summer.) Have fun on your roadtrip. 2 weeks from LA to Indy is enough to see many things, but I'd recommend not trying to see all the things. There are a lot of things. 8-)
@@BoardGamingRamblings When my Norwegian relatives used to come to northern Minnesota to visit, they would go out and lay in the sun if even the smallest sliver of the sun was visible. That shouldn't be a problem for you. 8-) If you're going to visit several of the National Parks and Monuments in the western US, I'd recommend getting the annual parks pass. It will pay its cost back in ~3 parks.
You are saying Vegas correct. Normally you guys pronounce "V" as we would pronounce a "W" so I can understand how it feels weird. I would expect you to say it like "Wegas" but that is not actually how it's said. Its like "Vay-gis"
Las Vegas is a bit...meh. Unless you go there to meet up with the Board Game Barrage crew. I'd rather spend more time in nature to be honest, Three Kings is amazing.
