Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A local example here in California. A trip from Oakland to Pasadena requires a flight from Oakland airport to Burbank airport and a motor trip to Pasadena of ten miles on a fast moving freeway. The air travel time is now as follows: Home to Oakland airport 20 min Baggage check in 30 min Time at airport security 90 min Waiting 30 min Flight time 60 min Baggage pick up and car rental 45 min Drive to Pasadena 15 min Various delays 30 min Total time 5 hr 20 min Drive from home to Pasadena, 375 miles doorstep to doorstep, 5 hr 15 min. When you consider the reduced cost and stress, it is preferable to drive. We save on two tickets and the car rental. In addition, we have the convenience of stopping for an ice cream cone whenever we want. Also, no film scanner and limit on our luggage. This is a frequent travel for us due to family matters. In the past years we flew. Now we drive and Southwest Airlines has one less customer. Should that concern them? Have they lost others? Roland Smith Oakland, California - ----- Original Message ----- From: <SthRosner@aol.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] airport security kinda long. ;-) > In a message dated 7/4/02 4:21:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > images@InfoAve.Net writes: > > > Travel is not fun any more. > > Yeah it can be, Tina, but not business travel when you have to get there and > get home. Try Amtrak's California Zephyr, Chicago to San Francisco, timed to > leave chicago mid-afternoon, overnight across the Iowa-Nebraska-Colorado > plains, Denver for breakfast, climbing through and across the Colorado > Rockies the first full day, Salt Lake City at dinner time, Utah-Nevada desert > the second night and the Donner Pass and the Sierra Nevada Mountains the > second full day. Movies in the club car and a decent dining car with > fresh-cooked meals. > > Or VIA from Vancouver to Calgary or Edmonton. Gorgeous. > > Or transatlantic on whatever ship is available (I think only QE2 is regularly > scheduled now). > > But it ain't easy and it ain't inexpensive. > > Seth LaK 9 > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html