I rarely leave the conference/training site when I go to some professional event of that nature. Some years back I attended training at the NAC (National Advocacy Center) in Columbia SC and it was a federal facility on a university campus and I had to fly to the class. I never left the property. Period. This was about 2 years after a couple of prosecutors were killed returning from dinner or some such thing while attending a class there. And in the welcome presentation, they actually specified two, and ONLY two, "safe" routes to take from the NAC/hotel to and from downtown. F Dat. Real good class, but a pain to get there due to the time change and they had us traveling the day before class.

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NHI, 10-8.