More Worldcon Travel Plans
Oct. 4th, 2023 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevin_standleeThe number of things I need to transport with me to Chengdu keeps growing. It's getting to the point where I am seriously considering taking two checked bags, even thought that will cost me a bunch extra in luggage charges. On the other hand, I won't need to take as many clothes as I typically do, because all I'm doing is flying to Chengdu, attending the Worldcon, and flying back. In fact, due to the fact that the return flight leaves at 8 AM on the morning after the convention ends and the airport appears to be almost 80 km (straight line) from the hotel/convention center, I'll have to skip the final post-closing-ceremony part of the convention (which is often one of my favorite parts of the event) and head out to TFU airport on Sunday evening to stay at a Holiday Inn Express near the airport.
That of course assumes that I've actually identified the hotel in which the convention has booked me and the convention site itself. For all of the pretty pictures on the Chengdu website, I've had a bit of a challenge trying to figure out where in the Chengdu area the convention is actually happening! I think it may be where this map shows a lake with what looks like a building site on one shore. If there is something on the Chengdu Worldcon website that gives actual directions to the convention site, I haven't found it yet. Considering that for about as how long as the technology has existed to do so, it has been my practice to "virtually walk" the area around a Worldcon using Google Maps, not being able to do so this year is yet another thing that makes me nervous.
That of course assumes that I've actually identified the hotel in which the convention has booked me and the convention site itself. For all of the pretty pictures on the Chengdu website, I've had a bit of a challenge trying to figure out where in the Chengdu area the convention is actually happening! I think it may be where this map shows a lake with what looks like a building site on one shore. If there is something on the Chengdu Worldcon website that gives actual directions to the convention site, I haven't found it yet. Considering that for about as how long as the technology has existed to do so, it has been my practice to "virtually walk" the area around a Worldcon using Google Maps, not being able to do so this year is yet another thing that makes me nervous.
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Date: 2023-10-05 12:43 pm (UTC)This does remind me of a couple of people who were coming to ConFrancisco, the 1993 Worldcon at the Moscone Convention Center in downtown San Francisco. Despite us having published highly detailed directions for getting to the site from the three major Bay Area airports (and by train, and by driving), they turned up at the Mailboxes Etc. store where our mail drop was. That was not even in San Francisco. I never learned how they decided that our mailing address was the site of the convention.
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Date: 2023-10-06 12:48 am (UTC)no subject
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