(Another try...)
> 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 t o 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, s o 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 instructo r 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. . --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
