Travel Planning -- Decisions, Decisions
Friday, December 5th, 2008 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
joyfinderheroOr choices, at least.
I'm fine as long as I stick with questions like, "What do you WANT to do?"
I want to be in exactly three places on February 1, and my Dear Husband wants me to be in a fourth. None could overlap.
There's a workshop I want to go to Feb 5-8 in Maryland, a conference Feb 11-16 in San Jose, California and another Feb 26-Mar 1 in Houston. Mar 22-25 I'd like to be in California on an outreach project.
If I plan my airplanes right it's cheaper to book it all up front. If I screw that up, the change fee could completely erase the savings.
Looks like leaving for Guatemala in late December is about right. Cheapest possible tix are traveling on Christmas Day itself, which I actually don't mind, but the layovers are weird -- 10 hours all day and then arrive in the middle of the night, exhausted, and like that. At least two wonderfully cheap fares require an overnight, but I'm just not up to sitting up in the terminal all night, so then there's the added cost of a hotel room.
Best predictions we can make just now about the boat's schedule is that we might possibly start provisioning about Feb 1. Which is just exactly when I'd rather be traipsing around the US than sitting at dockside stowing provisions. But I'm very painfully unwilling to give up all the February dates ... and then potentially find myself watching the grass grow.
There are a couple of folks in Houston I would love to visit (you know who you are) ... I keep thinking there are San Jose people, too, but actually one died, one moved away, and one has become rather reclusive in recent years, so maybe not. Maybe I'd settle for trying to find the old haunts, or maybe do exactly what my Dad used to do (and we always laughed at): travel across the country to spend the whole time in the hotel.
I think DH is on board with me flying back just for the San Jose conference, and I guess if we're provisioning by then, that's what I'll do. On the other hand, if the schedule continues to slip ... then all these other things become possible. Hmm.
I'm fine as long as I stick with questions like, "What do you WANT to do?"
I want to be in exactly three places on February 1, and my Dear Husband wants me to be in a fourth. None could overlap.
There's a workshop I want to go to Feb 5-8 in Maryland, a conference Feb 11-16 in San Jose, California and another Feb 26-Mar 1 in Houston. Mar 22-25 I'd like to be in California on an outreach project.
If I plan my airplanes right it's cheaper to book it all up front. If I screw that up, the change fee could completely erase the savings.
Looks like leaving for Guatemala in late December is about right. Cheapest possible tix are traveling on Christmas Day itself, which I actually don't mind, but the layovers are weird -- 10 hours all day and then arrive in the middle of the night, exhausted, and like that. At least two wonderfully cheap fares require an overnight, but I'm just not up to sitting up in the terminal all night, so then there's the added cost of a hotel room.
Best predictions we can make just now about the boat's schedule is that we might possibly start provisioning about Feb 1. Which is just exactly when I'd rather be traipsing around the US than sitting at dockside stowing provisions. But I'm very painfully unwilling to give up all the February dates ... and then potentially find myself watching the grass grow.
There are a couple of folks in Houston I would love to visit (you know who you are) ... I keep thinking there are San Jose people, too, but actually one died, one moved away, and one has become rather reclusive in recent years, so maybe not. Maybe I'd settle for trying to find the old haunts, or maybe do exactly what my Dad used to do (and we always laughed at): travel across the country to spend the whole time in the hotel.
I think DH is on board with me flying back just for the San Jose conference, and I guess if we're provisioning by then, that's what I'll do. On the other hand, if the schedule continues to slip ... then all these other things become possible. Hmm.