Well he's 4 hours away from where I live to the Northeast of me. The con is 6 hours from where I live to the Southeast.
So it's not a straight 9 hour drive. I think it's about 5 hours from his place to the con. He had someone that was going to take him, but they've had to change their plans, so I changed mine to come get him.
But I can't drive very long right now without a lot of pain. I broke a bone in my foot a couple months back, and I'm slowly starting to get better, so I've got to break up the drive into segments to be able to do it.
But yeah, he's like my little brother. So I feel pretty protective of him, and want to make sure he makes it. He's been to this con before, and has told me how much fun he had at it. I'm a pretty shy person, and don't do well around new people, if I don't know anyone.
But I have been talking to a few people that live about an hour and half away from me, that I'm going to be meeting at the con. I've talked to them about meeting a few times a year to hang out, and they've said they're up for it.
Around where I live a couple hour drive isn't that big of a trip, since everything is pretty far spaced out, and it's all highway / interstate driving, where a couple hours will take you pretty far. In fact I will make a trip that's over a hundred miles (one way) two or three times a week, in the evenings. (haven't done that much lately with my foot tho, but once it finishes healing, I should be able to start doing that again.)