Vacation Time? Wait, What?

[ase]

At the rate I'm going, I'll accrue 80 hours of rollover vacation time and another 25 or 30 of use-or-lose, but I have no money. So says my boss. What should I do with no travel budget and the (minimum) three days I absolutely, positively must take off before December 31st?

(This is the year I make myself a little miserable with penny-pinching, so next year I can have guilt-free toys like a dSLR and a car. A cheap car. Maybe a zipcar membership.)

Off to bike and contemplate the cons and further cons of running away to Nag's Head for a week. Yay, exercise!

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[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

Still in DC right? Have a laptop?

Fangirls' Guide to the Smithsonian Institution?

How about just burrowing into the Library of Congress for a little while?

Does the Chinatown Bus count as no money?

[ase.livejournal.com]

In DC, but the laptop weighs 8 pounds. Then you add the power brick... it's technically portable.

Depending on what I do when I get off the bus, the cheap bus to, say, New York City may be doable. It's finding somewhere safe and economical to stay at the other end that might be a problem.

LoC in November is a possibility. Right now we're having awesome DC fall weather, so outdoor plans is really appealing. (Oh! C&O canal bike ride! That would be cool.)

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

When the C & O Canal path was first opened, my dad's Boy Scout troop hiked the length of it. Sounds like a cool idea to me.

As far as the places to stay in NY thing: Are you still on the Bujold list? If you're willing to make an open appeal for "Anyone interested in hosting a listie?", I had an outstanding time with the listies I met and stayed with in New Zealand. Or you might know people on LJ. Does the bus go to Philly? I know there are listie types there who would remember you. The Franklin Institute is exceedingly cool, if you've never been there.

[ase.livejournal.com]

Biking the entire canal route is probably more than I'm ready for, but at least one day trip would be rocking awesome.

I'm technically onlist, but read extremely sporadically. I wouldn't feel comfortable delurking after years for the express purpose of freeloading (cheaploading? Can I invent that word?).

Weirdly, I would feel less weird about bugging, say, the lmbujold comm. I've made enough icon posts there that I feel I've got a little social capital to work with.

Does the bus go to Philly?

I'm pretty sure Greyhound services the entire BosWash corridor. Chinatown buses may or may not.