ASlice wrote:
>I live 50 miles from the west coast of the USA. IOLI conference is 1200
miles from me, and that is considered 'close'. It's less than 3 hours by
plane. Our group has a good percentage attending because of the
location. We even have three people driving because it's only three days
drive. The cost of driving and flying are about the same, so it's purely a
choice of travel preference.
Next year the IOLI will be 3000 miles from here. There will not be many
from here traveling that far. In 2007, the IOLI will be less than 2000
miles and more will go to that one, though I doubt any will try to drive
there from here....
Well, at least you've got ood roads you can drive along to get from one town to
another!! In Australia, apart from the coastal areas which are the populated
ones, most roads are dirt roads, and not really very nice on your car if you
don't have a 4WD or equivalent! My poor little Corolla certainly couldn't stand
going to Perth for our next Lace AGM, even less to Darwin which is up top and
surrounded for thousands of miles of ...nature, including one of two deserts!!
Lacemakers who come from Brisbane to Perth travel about the distance from
London to Moscow, but without the roads and the population.
Friends of mine live in Mount Isa at the moment, top of Australia, and to come
down to Melbourne by plane, they pay around $4,000, compared to $2,000 to go to
Europe and back. They do have a 4WD, and it takes them 4 days to drive down,
and I must say that Ian usually drives at 100 miles an hour, except in
townships where he follows the rules.
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, who now thinks it's cute the way French
people feel that driving 10 miles to go to a party is really the limit!
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