What Should I Do With My Free Round Trip Ticket?

I have a free round trip ticket good for one year. May 12th is the final month to use that ticket anywhere in the 48 states. I need your help on getting some ideas on what I should do with my rain ticket and would like to use it with great benefit other than to visit a relative or parents (my mother is coming up next month to visit me in New Mexico, so...). Where can I go in terms of getting additional exposure/experience on an intellectual scale involving deafness issues such as going to a convention, a workshop, etc. Something that would reap valuable information as well as being able to share my own ideas, concepts, experiences and opinions in person.

Just to let you know before hand my trip will not be about going to a protest or some advocacy thing involving groups of people who like nothing more than to complain and whine. Not my style. Neither will I use my round trip ticket to go to an award just to pat myself on my back or others, again, not my style and I have better use of my time than to do that (now if you're going to whine about the award thing in here in my Haloscan comment better think twice before you actually do it in here) because I have my reasons.

I can reserve for my round-trip plane ticket no less than two weeks out. So, it must be more than two weeks down the road where I want to go. That means I must use my ticket well before the May 12th flight where I may stay a few days before returning. I must return back home no later than May 12th!

Ok. I'll wait and read your suggestions . Please, some intelligent responses and not the lame ones. Just because you put forth some possible ideas where I may want to go doesn't mean that I will go there. I just might fly into Miami for a day or two and sip some Mai Tai and then come back with a nice tan.

*shrugs*

Then again that depends on what your suggestions are like and I might just fancy yours and take up on that idea.

UPDATE: It doesn't have to be to a "deafness-related" event. Other ideas/suggestions are welcomed if they're something that I hadn't thought of before. Tapping into your brain banks. Think "intellectual" events something that I may find educationally rewarding or stimulating.