Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 12:25:12 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Joys of travel, was [WSFA] Re: Nebula winners
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> 5/18/2010 8:03 PM >>>
>mark wrote:
>> Michael Walsh wrote:
>>>> "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> 5/18/2010 12:06 PM >>>
>>>> Michael Walsh wrote:
>>>>>> "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> 5/18/2010 11:34 AM >>>
>>>>>> That explains it.  I've never been to Chicago.
>>>>> There's always this in 2012 as an excuse to go:
http://www.chicagoin2012=
>>> .or=
>>>>> g/
>>>> Yeah, that might do it.  Chicago is close enough to drive to,
>>> 12 to 13 hours, depending on the usual.
>>
>> Yeah, right. Add an hour or two to that.
>>
>> mark, who did it twice last year, relocating from there
>
>Still not bad.  Only about twice what it would take to fly.
>
>I drove to Indianapolis back in 2001 for an Aikido event.  Took 11
hours
>each way...one day drive.  Unlike those who flew, I got to attend the

>whole event.  The airlines decided to cancel flights and rescheduled a

>bunch of attendees from the evening Sunday flights to the noon Sunday

>flights...and it was a two day event...Saturday and Sunday.
>
>I also didn't have any problems with security getting my weapons into

>the car...

Not that flying was always great before 9/11:

"In 1939, for instance, checking in seems to have involved merely a
reservation call and a cash transaction*and you only had to be there
one hour ahead of time. But I, for one, am pretty happy that my last
plane flight (Minneapolis to San Francisco) didn't involve paying more
than $2000, publicly disclosing my weight to the gate agent (and
everybody in line behind me), or dealing with a plane full of smokers."
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/18/when-flying-was-clas.html

mjw