Daniel, you have made an outstanding case WHY NOT to hold a reunion event in the southeast. The very thing that makes a lighthouse a great place for a family or small group to visit make it a not-so-good place to try to run 400 people thru. Those wonderful museums can't handle 100 people exploring them every hour for half a day (or worse....) The gift shop could not keep up. (I can tell you that one from experience - gift shops are probably the single biggest cause for getting off schedule on a trip!)

My most memorable lighthouse visits have been to what I refer to as "destination lights". These are lights where the trip to get there is why you remember the trip and light. Point Reyes by itself is not an overly pretty light. However, when you add in the drive to get there, the 400 or so stairs down to the light and then the view from the light it is one hell of a place to visit. However, there is no way you could run 400 people to the light and back in a short time frame.