Logistics and pricing and things, oh my.

[reynardo]

Heya guys,

Just trying to get some more of the details together, specifically the East Coast parts.

1) Flying into Manchester on the 17th (we'll end up arriving middayish or later due to time zones and minimum-times-between-flights) and hiring a car from there looks like the best idea because the prices to hire in Augusta are not pretty. I can only begin to imagine what the flick the local squirrel population did to the hire cars to drive the prices up.

2) However, one-way driving to BWI or even PHL is not pretty either.

So - deor and malada - if we drive the car to Syracuse (your nearest big city as far as I can tell) on Sunday afternoon, how easy is it for you to pick us up from there?

We'd then like very much to take up the very kind offers of your good selves and torin3 to be picked up on Monday, go to the Air and Spare Museum on Tuesday, then fly out from Baltimore International on Wednesday 28th. (silmaril, where would be a good place to stay at on Tuesday night? Is there accommodation near you that's in walking distance of a really nice restaurant?)

On Wednesday 28th we fly back to LA - which is a whole new squirrel game.

Comments

[turnberryknkn.livejournal.com]

Yay! :-)

I'm very glad that you're coming to visit us all in America again. I'll give a friendly wave at your airplane as you fly by. :-)

(Am very happy had chance to visit with you last time you were in the US, and hoping everyone else this time around has as marvelous a time as I.)

[chaos-crafter.livejournal.com]

Can you let me know what it's costing you? There's just a chance (slim now i think) that we can go to. I think my work has (again) fscked my tax so I don't get my bonus. If I'm wrong then I may have enough money coming.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Is this the 28th of August?

And what do you mean by a "really nice restaurant"? Something that has a wine menu and $20 entrees, or a clean, good diner acceptable? Because I can offer you accommodation in my apartment, actually, and it's within walking distance of the aforementioned diner. And of a Metro station. There are also a few hotels within the area, although they are of the cheaper-chain kind. There's a nice (Italian) restaurant within the area, too, but that's about it for walking distance.

If you stay in downtown, well, there will be restaurants within walking distance and I would come see you with public transport. (I might even meet you in the afternoon by playing hooky from the lab.)

[panacea1.livejournal.com]

As we may have mentioned before (or at least as Aldin keeps suggesting to me) you can save a couple days' car rental by having us collect you in Manchester using one of our cars, and drop you off on the way south (in Portland, say) when you're outbound. Which would save you the madness of trying to drive around here.

[torin3.livejournal.com]

Sure. Just let us know where you would like to be picked up. We are talking Sept. still right?

[deor.livejournal.com]

So - deor and malada - if we drive the car to Syracuse (your nearest big city as far as I can tell) on Sunday afternoon, how easy is it for you to pick us up from there?

Syracuse is about an hour, hour and a half away, depending on where in the city we'd be going. Malada knows her way around it better than I.