So, my folks are heading out to see the extended family in southern illinois this weekend. I would like to join them, but, it’s just not accessible. I’m saving up my spare time to join them (my parents) for a week in hawaii in october (and I still need to pull an extra day’s worth of work time out of some extradimensional orifice to make that one work).
It’s either a ‘5 and a half hour’ each amtrak trip assuming nothing breaks (approximately akin to assuming 2 inches of rain on any given day in AZ). or a 10 hour greyhound trip each way. Either option costs about 120, and spends 2/3 of my weekend getting from point A to point B. If I could take off an extra day or two for the travel, I’d probably do it. But I really don’t have the time to spare.
Otoh, there are some tempting looking e-saver flights. Like $202 to burlington, $160 to NYC, $250 to SFO, $200 to toronto, or $150 to dc. Except I’ve been to all of those places recently. No esavers to seattle, portland, or vancouver, the next places I’d really like to check out. Maybe I should just hang out and do something in town. Ah, but what to do, what to do? =)
You know there ARE many things to do in Chicago 🙂 For starters, there’s the Chicago Jazz Festival all weekend. Which is free.
oh yeah, how’d you like ny?
Good restaurants.
It also contains memories of some of my worst and best sexual experiences as an adult. =)
And the musicals are nice too.
Traffic is crazy.
Expensive as all hell.
Good transit system, if about the most confusing I’ve encountered.
All in all, I’d give it an “awesome place to visit, but dear god I don’t want to live there.” =)
it’s interesting which of those points i’d disagree with 🙂
i’d say traffic -> not crazy … while transit system -> sucks if you need to leave manhattan … it kind of caters to the .. well, the rich?
the traffic is kind of like… once you know the rules, essentially – like when not to go where because there’s commercial stuff there, etc, then the traffic is pretty good- better than i thought it was in metro boston.
but who knows. maybe i’m just crazy 🙂
Or very used to your home town. =)
are the two that different? 😉