Also worth noting: once cleared for landing on land, SpaceX can move their launches a few hundred miles West and omit the barge, landing the stages down-range a

Also worth noting: once cleared for landing on land, SpaceX can move their launches a few hundred miles West and omit the barge, landing the stages down-range at a coastal landing facility. Added bonus here is that returning cores via road is a heck of a lot cheaper than by sea, and you avoid that nasty salt-water-on-fancy-metal action.