Pete perhaps you should "dance" into LA, and come visit me, and we can leave from here!
Whatever you do, avoid "dancing" around Denver. It will snow, you will sit there for 2 days (if you're lucky like I was you'll get a bus that will carry you downtown to a hotel) and then you'll stand in line for 5 hours to be rebooked, only to find out that the next flight to your destination is the following Tuesday, and it's only Thursday, and you'll wind up turning around and going home. I've been stuck there twice.
Yes, I did fly through Denver once more after that in August. I took great sarcastic pleasure during my hour layover telling everyone I could how I'd noticed that it wasn't snowing for a change. ;-)