First thing, this is not a question about leaving the forums.
Second thing, this is a minor concern, nothing life changing. I'm not pretending that it's that urgent.
Now, with that out of the way...
My mother is stupid-level involved in Boy Scouts through my younger brother. She has spent several months organizing a week-long canoe trip in the Boundary Waters for the scout troop. She and said brother are going because scouts, and wherever she goes my father also goes (also, because they need another adult to supervise the littluns). I, however, am not going, and do not want to go. I don't like camping, bugs, or the kids in my brother's scout troop. This is where I have to make a choice.
The default is for me to stay at home by myself for a week. The first response anyone who knows my age will give would probably be "Sealy, you're 17 years old! You're mature enough to take care of yourself for a week." And indeed I am, for a certain definition of "take care of myself". However, due to the state of Michigan's (and, by now, most places') wacko licensing laws for minors, and my parents' relentless protectionism, I don't have a drivers' license, and with the spread-outness of the local area I would be effectively separated from anything but houses for the whole week. And being stuck at home alone for a week would be a psychological nightmare, and probably result in me not making particularly healthy diet and lifestyle choices for that duration.
The alternative is for me to go to Bwahston and stay with my aunt and her family. The family as a whole is very friendly, we enjoyed the last time we visited them, and she actually offered preemptively to let me stay there for the week. Of the three cousins in that branch of the family, only one of them is actually living at home now, so they're used to full houses in the past, and he's a cool guy too. But I'm not sure about the idea. On one hand, I'd like to be able to both go somewhere more interesting than the Christian Republic of West Michigan, and to visit family that I don't see that much. On the other, I'm still a little bit uncertain about how well the family dynamics will actually play out over the course of the week, of travelling to Boston on my own, and, I guess, that I'll end up not doing much more there than I would at home, even with the egging on from relatives.
What say you, Bay12? To go to Boston and face uncertainty, or stay at home and face being a lazy bum?