ok JonJon,
I will try to remember...lol

;-)

Muck

NO! It was done in the past, and was awful.

Another vote for separating Hawaii. There are a significant number of posts about it only, and not many people tie it in with other states in one visit.

Another vote against - I usually post more on the Asia board since I live in China, and it's sloooooooooooow! The Europe board is much more fun because it moves so fast. I think the benefits and ease of searching & bumping posts back up if they've disappeared too quickly to get many responses outweigh the many drawbacks there would be to splitting them.

IF (that's a big IF) a change HAD to be made, wouldn't the solution be to simply expand the message list from 50 to say, 100, or 200? It's text only, so it wouldn't take more than a pico-second more to load.
I echo all previous posts re "cross-fertilization", "if it aint broke", etc. If it changed to be more segmented like Frommers or Lonely Planets, would it be as popular as Fodors?

Another vote for keeping things together on the EUROPE board.

Threads on the US board sink just as quickly as on the Europe board, should we have to divide up the US by states? Guess this makes me against having a separate Hawaii forum.

I love scrolling down the Europe forum messages and getting ideas for places I haven't been. Would lose that ability if the whole forum were split up. Besides, would have missed that three word game that Betsy started - sooo much fun!

I say keep it all one board, there are too many "general" conversations that branch off here in this forum.