Thanks never heard of that website before always like knowing what people are using. I switched it to Tuesday travel to lower price as well.
West coast adds another 2-3hrs of flying compared to those east coast cities and a couple more hours of airport time. The fastest possible i saw was 16hrs from the pretty good hub of Salt Lake City. It's just a pretty hard country to get to is all... I guess that is what makes it exciting.
I'll be photographing a youtube conference before that so I guess it's a month of trips (also bolivia in there somewhere)