Neal: That is an extremely generous offer, but I think we should scratch up $$ for your effort/gas.  Starting at your location is sensible.  
March 16 or 30 are tentative dates; voice your opinion.
We'll need 3 or 4 hosts to make this a proper reef 

crawl (thanks, Jason!).
I'll monitor this thread, and begin to build a schedule and participant list.  If it looks like we build critical mass, I'll start to lock in details.
Cheers,
Matt