And the chances of making two connections in the modern age of air travel are...
Unless I had pressing business, I would drive, take two days each way (or at least one way), and do some recreational/speculative/stock photography en route. There's some beautiful countryside between you and Greensboro. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Tue, 10/19/10, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > From: paul stenquist <[email protected]> > Subject: OT: To drive -- or not > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 7:50 PM > I have a shoot in Martinsville, > Virginia at a race car engine building shop. I'll be > shooting engine assembly procedures, parts and equipment > indoors. It will probably take me the better part of a > day. > > My travel expenses will be reimbursed whether I drive or > fly. My first thought was fly. For sure. But looking at > flights, I'd have to fly into Greensboro, NC and I'd have to > change planes, perhaps twice. The shortest flight would be 4 > 1/2 hours. To that add the two hours prior to flight time > that I'd need to travel from home to the airport and deal > with airport crap. Then another hour at the other end. So Im > at 7+ hours. And that's if all the flights are on time. > > Martinsville is 600 miles from my front door. I can drive > there in about ten hours. If I drive, I can take more > equipment -- perhaps even my studio strobes. I'm thinking > now that I should drive. But I don't like to drive for ten > hours, twice in three days. If I fly. I can work on some of > my writing on the plane, so that's a big plus. > > Can't decide. It's a dilemna. > > Paul > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
