Check out AMTRAK. The Essex Junction station is only a few blocks from
the campground.
--Ediger
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 2:24 PM, David dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote:
The table below shows plane ticket prices out
of Houston to Burlington. ( I presume the prices
are similar from other major airports out of Texas. )
http://www.continental.com/web/en-US/apps/booking/flight/searchResultDates.aspx
The most practical flight leaving on Friday and coming back on
Saturday is $ 418,
( plus fees ).
[ If you haven't registered yet, and still hope to go, then you can
register on-line
for $ 150. ]
If you don't rent a car and can find a ride from and to the airport
and rides during the convention,
and you don't stay in hotels and you don't eat out much, and you don't buy any
souvenirs or caving gear or books, etc, then the total trip cost can
be had for under
$ 600.
Otherwise, if you rent a car and get a hotel for 7 nights and buy
stuff and eat out a lot,
you are looking at total trip cost of $ 1,200 to $ 1,400. ( I
definitely won't be doing any
of that ).
The other option is to make the long drive up there and back with some
cavers. While
that may be less than $ 418, the flight is a little over 6 hours,
while the drive is something
like 33 hours non-stop presuming you don't have a flat tire, or get lost, etc.
If you are going to rent a car for the week, then you can save $ 100
by flying to an airport
like Manchester, New Hampshire.
http://www.continental.com/web/en-US/apps/booking/flight/searchResultDates.aspx
On a personal note,
I doubt I can go to the convention this year, but I am leaning towards
the cheapest
flight to Manchester ( $ 278 ) and then finding a ride to and from the
convention from there.
My biggest issue is that because I am self-employed, I don't make any
money while I am
gone and I don't make my customers happy. However, I have very little work
at the moment, and realistically, nobody would miss me if I were gone
for a week. The other
issue is that it can sometimes be hard to have fun on vacation when
you don't have money
to spend on things. The practical side of me ( if there is such a
thing ) says to stay home,
while the other side of me says to load up my back-pack and just get there.
If I do make it, I look forward to seeing some of you there.
David Locklear
caver in Fort Bend County
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