Travel Plans Change
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kevin_standleeOur original travel plans to Seattle were for us to leave very early tomorrow morning and drive to Bend, where I could use a Holiday Inn coupon for a free night, then on to Seattle the next day. I was a little concerned about how long this first leg of the trip was going to be. Now 450 miles isn't too awful, but as we've gotten older, Lisa and I have become less tolerant of simply driving with no stops at all, and our average travel speed has gone down.
I suggested we try and head out on Monday evening. Lisa was agreeable to that, but then where would we stop for the night? Either we only go the relatively short distance to Susanville (which is actually about 20 miles out of our planned route), or we hope that one of the few wayside motels along US-395 north of Susanville are still there — I can't find any of them online, and they all looked pretty dodgy the last time we drove through there — or we push through to Alturas, roughly halfway to Bend.
Neither Susanville nor Alturas have hotels in the Holiday Inn or Quality Inn families, the two groups in which I have any night accumulations. But there's a Super 8 in Alturas, and the price wasn't too bad, so we booked a room.
Having done this, we could probably have changed the Bend night to something closer to Portland, but we instead decided to make the middle leg (Alturas to Burns) on Tuesday the "short leg," especially as the way in which I booked the Bend night makes it slightly more difficult to change than an ordinary reservation. (Indeed, since I was redeeming a coupon, it's possible I might not have been able to rebook it at all; I am not certain.
I suggested we try and head out on Monday evening. Lisa was agreeable to that, but then where would we stop for the night? Either we only go the relatively short distance to Susanville (which is actually about 20 miles out of our planned route), or we hope that one of the few wayside motels along US-395 north of Susanville are still there — I can't find any of them online, and they all looked pretty dodgy the last time we drove through there — or we push through to Alturas, roughly halfway to Bend.
Neither Susanville nor Alturas have hotels in the Holiday Inn or Quality Inn families, the two groups in which I have any night accumulations. But there's a Super 8 in Alturas, and the price wasn't too bad, so we booked a room.
Having done this, we could probably have changed the Bend night to something closer to Portland, but we instead decided to make the middle leg (Alturas to Burns) on Tuesday the "short leg," especially as the way in which I booked the Bend night makes it slightly more difficult to change than an ordinary reservation. (Indeed, since I was redeeming a coupon, it's possible I might not have been able to rebook it at all; I am not certain.
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Date: 2012-07-02 07:45 pm (UTC)Lia and I are still planning on driving from Boston to Chicago. Pretty much all the other groups that were thinking of driving have come to their senses. It is 978 miles or 16.5 hours as Google Directions says. I suspect my GPS would come up with a shorter time. We are planning on doing this because we have something (for Tech) that really can't be shipped, especially given the union situation in Chicago. Lia said something about that is a *long* day. I suggested that it was really two eight to ten hour days stopping around Buffalo over-night in both directions. Unfortunately, having to pay for two extra nights hotel pretty much negates the savings of driving over flying. Well, it seemed like a good idea when we first said we would do it.
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Date: 2012-07-02 10:56 pm (UTC)