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So, based on the advice my kind friends here have given me, I've been looking into flying to someplace else and busing it from there to Madison.
It's $60 cheaper to fly to Milwaukee than to Minneapolis, which is really weird because to fly from San Jose to Milwaukee you have to change planes in Minneapolis. Why can't I just get the ticket for the first plane? For grim curiosity's sake, I looked up the air fare from Minneapolis to Milwaukee: they have a flight which takes you to Chicago and then to Milwaukee, for, again, $60 less going straight from Minneapolis to Milwaukee. What the hell?
Oh, and the Greyhound from Milwaukee to Madison is just fine, but from Madison to Milwaukee it doesn't meet the plane unless I stay the night in Milwaukee.
Flying from San Jose to Chicago is about the same cost, so there's no saving, but it looks like the bus might meet the plane better. Flying from San Francisco to Chicago is still more expensive. From Oakland to Chicago is the same as from San Jose.
Taking the bus all the way from California is a two-day trip each way. The train from San Jose requires four changes, from Oakland three changes, and in either case takes two days also.
Driving is out of the question, even if it wasn't a two-day trip each way.
I'm not sure I can't swing the Chicago option. I'm pretty sure I can't, though.
It's $60 cheaper to fly to Milwaukee than to Minneapolis, which is really weird because to fly from San Jose to Milwaukee you have to change planes in Minneapolis. Why can't I just get the ticket for the first plane? For grim curiosity's sake, I looked up the air fare from Minneapolis to Milwaukee: they have a flight which takes you to Chicago and then to Milwaukee, for, again, $60 less going straight from Minneapolis to Milwaukee. What the hell?
Oh, and the Greyhound from Milwaukee to Madison is just fine, but from Madison to Milwaukee it doesn't meet the plane unless I stay the night in Milwaukee.
Flying from San Jose to Chicago is about the same cost, so there's no saving, but it looks like the bus might meet the plane better. Flying from San Francisco to Chicago is still more expensive. From Oakland to Chicago is the same as from San Jose.
Taking the bus all the way from California is a two-day trip each way. The train from San Jose requires four changes, from Oakland three changes, and in either case takes two days also.
Driving is out of the question, even if it wasn't a two-day trip each way.
I'm not sure I can't swing the Chicago option. I'm pretty sure I can't, though.
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She only goes to Fanime for the costumes, now.
Let's all focus on making Baycon things happen, somehow.
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Good idea. (It's actually be a few years since I've been to a Baycon, oddly enough. Time to get back in the habit.) I expect I'll be daytripping for some subset of the con, but with advance scheduling I should be able to make a gettogether a priority.