-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/2013 05:05 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > I've taken many 600 mile one day trips and only once had a serious > car problem. On planes, I regularly have delays, missed > connections, almost-lost wallets while putting myself back together > after stripping for the feds, and for the past five years I've > never had a plane trip that involved less than four hours of > non-plane time. And you guys are driving 3 hours just to get to > Orlando.
Well, Jax to Louisville is rather more than 600 miles. The shortest practical route by road is I-10 -> I-75 -> I-24 -> I-65 via Atlanta, Chattanooga and Nashville. It's 767 miles (11 hours 19 mins) according to Google Maps. That's a loooong drive if you have to be alert for a class the next day. Not that it's not doable, just no fun. In their case, they can get a direct flight from Orlando to Louisville, so they don't have to worry about missed connections. And although in this case they can car-pool, if they were making the trip individually at current gas prices, they could probably fly cheaper than they could drive. I hope to be there myself, and I will be driving, though in my case I now live in Kentucky anyway, so it's only about 200 miles for me. > If you drive, you're pretty darn sure you'll get there on time. In > a plane, not so much. I try to avoid flying too, if only out of protest at the ridiculous TSA crap. Although I'm a Linux Geek for my day job, I'm a firearms instructor in my copious free time, so pretty much everything I have is likely to contain traces of powder residue, etc... However, in their case I would say flying makes sense. Louisville International airport is only about 6 miles from where the class is being held. Regards, Ozz. - -- ======================================== Computers are like air conditioners... They stop working when you open Windows. ======================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRjDwnAAoJEPkScpkazRDUGocQALsoml3oPZ3hDVxznSY2zYNp SzLIsRjnTcTsJwPSy84mUT+ITpuWZH5LIlmaZmHkYYmp2XGTPXzq9bESXEGUJDel MHdfQDVCHVQGnztEAQOObxuEkpsbKCaL3nRyRqKLpqLBsZuvnpQsMujg3Z1ZmyPV fzKfe20D4qtoC9pzybgd5sUZo/KXXQG1r3CGmXKffSZ491PO0GnJkU1El8e1Wabu H49TEW1FbJV3NMgf3CQ/Af3JW9A53bNTgrj5sC26kALfTstwvwHVdT3xOmtXwW1S LpP0IkW1WCNDhWoB4WQwJiV4yOHD5KQGgQfgHyr+yJac48VqtS/rGdkZqmi8KGvK Ovr8UbtAacP0uMDVX29h1Zg1LT/YzEMfBgJPWZj/YegpnPhZSoaCwGwC9jHrrPhe C0vFr1VDa+Sx9x5ZMYFe0OVl+7pAjEHEEp1z5EQmMQrFDVCUYjjYQNt55HO/yAWu wCmkwRg1CFcta7exPhXV9z4of5joNfaV/F6h0zbQYHeg5hyyrmqtOcOKOjgwlALQ eDwITv4nGfFlqN+hFQvMVmGaIkov3XwwIRhDkcoH4aabdPqzWt7Ge8ofiXyPPUjy 5xvZaN1olWMhMrIZHEQbYm3Xvk2mm/u6TT50jkli+ZWCE020efowdmE29/plLda5 KimJK4pmnSlbReGEQ7Cg =GhRc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml Unsubscribe list-unsubscr...@jaxlug.org
