This has actually been discussed in detail. Last year John and I decided we wanted to have a CC meet in the middle of the country. Anyone is welcome, but the main interested parties were John and myself, Connie, Joe Fabiano, Alex, Anfrey, Victor, Denny if in country, and I feel like I'm forgetting others. If you don't know who those people are, sorry I don't know screen names - we all talk too often for me to go by screen names anymore.
The people listed were as far east as NJ, far west as Seattle, far north as Michigan. No cars involved since some of us are too low/too far to take the cars on long trips. We'd all fly to a spot and go in together on hoteling, and tour a city/party for a weekend. All expenses would be split by the group except for individual travel to the destination. From there all expenses split to help save money.
We were all pretty serious about it, and then everyone kept having things happen so it never went anywhere. I am still down for this. I'm the most central out of anyone on this board (St. Louis, MO), so I didn't mind covering some costs to help out others since little to no travel is involved for me.
Anytime I travel I always meet up with members. And Alex is helping us find good areas in Seattle to move to, so I guarantee when we fly out there to start looking, we'll be meeting up with her.