First it was Hong Kong, then came Dubai and Las Vegas and now Hawaii has been proposed as the latest exotic location for a future World Club Challenge - but there is more chance of a Super League club playing in Hemel Hempstead than Honolulu.
Rugby league enthusiasts have been never afraid to dream, so every February someone floats the idea of developing the annual clash of the champions by increasing the number of participants and moving the fixture away from England.
Super League clubs have hosted all 13 of the games since the concept was revived in 2000 and taken advantage of home comforts to win all but five of them, including Leeds' impressive victory over Manly at Headingley last Friday, thus beating the drum for the English game.
The Challenge can only be regarded as a true measure of the strength of Super League compared to the NRL if it was either staged alternately between the two hemispheres or held at a neutral venue.
It is, of course, a noble gesture to forfeit home advantage but it is unlikely to ever happen.
The reason England has become a regular home for the match is simply because it is guaranteed to generate a decent crowd and, therefore, a profit whereas the insular NRL clubs have traditionally showed a disinterest in anything international, especially if it carries a risk.
The Australians are not convinced they can draw a crowd for a game in summer and, if England cannot pull in spectators in Dubai and Abu Dhabi for international cricket, the Middle Eastern venues are unlikely to take to a one-off rugby league match.
The NRL are happy for their Grand-Final winners to make the annual trek to England, using it as a pre-season trial, and politely say they will consider the repeated requests from the RFL to freshen up the contest.
Some of the NRL clubs take it seriously but St George Illawarra caused a few sweaty brows at Red Hall when they openly discussed whether to take part in the 2011 fixture and Manly's hit-and-run exercise clearly backfired on them last Friday.
Had the Sea Eagles given themselves more time to prepare in England, perhaps playing a warm-up game as they did in 2009, they might have produced a similar result to their 28-20 triumph over Leeds at Elland Road.
This time the Sydney outfit looked jet-lagged for the first 30 minutes and trailed 12-0 but by the 60-minute mark were all over the Rhinos and looked the likely winners until their hosts produced a superb rearguard defensive effort to snatch the spoils.
Meanwhile, talk of expansion brings a shudder down the spine, with memories still fresh of the ill-fated World Club Championship in 1997 when the whole of the fledgling Super League were embarrassed by their Australian counterparts.
A string of hopelessly lop-sided scorelines illustrated the gulf between the two competitions which probably still exists to a great extent today.
However, there is good reason to believe the leading Super League clubs would be competitive against NRL sides.
While the Australians have succeeded in creating an even competition in which it is difficult to predict even the top eight finishers, the gap between the top and bottom of Super League is bigger than ever.
So an eight-team contest involving Super League's big four of Leeds, St Helens, Wigan and Warrington against the leading NRL clubs would certainly be an attractive proposition.
The next consideration would be the timing and location but it could even happen later this year, with several NRL clubs apparently considering taking advantage of the absence of the Four Nations Series by making end-of-season trips to England.
