travel to Cincinnati (notes to self)
Mar. 22nd, 2004 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioThe dates for the Sh'liach K'hilah program changed slightly; it now starts at noon on a Sunday. That makes travel more complicated.
Train: you can't get there from here (except via DC or Chicago or something similarly stupid from a Pittsburgher's perspective).
Bus: best price $78 (advance purchase); departure options 12:30am (arriving 6am) or 3am (arriving 10am). Just how icky are buses (and city Greyhound terminals at night) these days? Dunno; haven't done that in a while. Drunk-dirty-old-man quotient was high last time.
Air: best price $249; departure approximately 6am. Nothing seems to leave at a more civilized hour like 9 or 10. Air travel is a PITA; it would have to be a lot cheaper for me to consider it in this case.
Drive: either drive half the night (Shabbat ends fairly late in July), arriving roughly 4am, or get up at the butt-crack of dawn, drive 6 hours arriving before noon, and be fresh and perky for a day of classes.
Hitch a ride from some other student who's passing through Pittsburgh (I don't know yet if any such exist; will ask).
Violate Shabbat. :-( (No, I'm not considering this; I just list it for the sake of completeness.)
Oh, here's an idea: arrive Friday. This is HUC; there ought to be people there to do Shabbat with! That might be my best option. Must call tomorrow and ask.
Train: you can't get there from here (except via DC or Chicago or something similarly stupid from a Pittsburgher's perspective).
Bus: best price $78 (advance purchase); departure options 12:30am (arriving 6am) or 3am (arriving 10am). Just how icky are buses (and city Greyhound terminals at night) these days? Dunno; haven't done that in a while. Drunk-dirty-old-man quotient was high last time.
Air: best price $249; departure approximately 6am. Nothing seems to leave at a more civilized hour like 9 or 10. Air travel is a PITA; it would have to be a lot cheaper for me to consider it in this case.
Drive: either drive half the night (Shabbat ends fairly late in July), arriving roughly 4am, or get up at the butt-crack of dawn, drive 6 hours arriving before noon, and be fresh and perky for a day of classes.
Hitch a ride from some other student who's passing through Pittsburgh (I don't know yet if any such exist; will ask).
Violate Shabbat. :-( (No, I'm not considering this; I just list it for the sake of completeness.)
Oh, here's an idea: arrive Friday. This is HUC; there ought to be people there to do Shabbat with! That might be my best option. Must call tomorrow and ask.
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Date: 2004-03-22 11:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-03-22 11:11 pm (UTC)The last few years I went to Pennsic, my rides and I stopped about 4hrs out of Pennsic and stayed in a hotel (each way). That way we only had a modest amount of driving before setting up camp, and a modest amound of driving after striking camp. To me, it was worth the money, just to not put myself physically through the wringer. I hate sleeping in strange beds, but I hate dropping 5lb sledgehammers on my feet, more.
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Date: 2004-03-23 08:33 am (UTC)Ooh, excellent idea. Thanks; I hadn't thought of splitting it like that. (And no, the cost of a Motel-8 or whatnot really isn't an issue.)