Stop in for a cup of coffee

Tell them it is very inconvenient and a financial burden to drill there with the lack of lodging etc, you are entertaining moving to a guard facility closer.

I am still amazed they do not put you up over the drill weekends.

yeah but that wouldnt fly. I think the career path change is probably gonna be my best argument for it. Course, then I have to get the wifey on board. I dont know which is gonna be harder to do.....