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: 2004-03-23 07:05 pm (UTC)If you decide to come in on Friday I'm sure you'll be able to find a place to celebrate Shabbat (I'll offer up my congregation, but I'll be driving there and I know you observe Shabbat a lot more closely than I do). You should contact the person in charge of the program and see if they can put you in touch with someone, maybe an HUC student who'll be in town for the summer (there probably will be some as a number have internships at local synagogues that go through the summer months).
You could also contact the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati (http://www.jewishcincinnati.org/ ). They do a thing called Holiday Buddies that pairs people either new to town or on their own with families/couples or individuals and I'm pretty sure they have an option for Shabbat, too:
Jewish Federation of Cincinnati 4380 Malsbary Road, Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45242 Tel: 513.985.1514 Fax: 513.985.1503 jpakrosnis@jfedcin.org