I also hope the exhibit travels closer to home.
I forget what year it was, but I went to New York City alone to see the Pompeii exhibit at the Met (?). Geeze, it's been so long ago I actually forget. Drove my broken down Chevy to the Cleveland Airport, my mom was worried to death about me (only found out about that years later).
I do remember that at the last moment there were some pieces of the exhibit that were not allowed to come to NYC.