I Demand Spring Break!

[ase]

Did you know that, if you fly on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, you can get a nonstop IAD* to LAX flight for $207? And that I don't have class on April 8th?

*Dulles is a 20 minute drive from dad's.

So theoretically, I could fly out on the 8th, and take a red-eye home on the 14th, and rent a car so I can personally experience LA traffic, and incidentally see my sister in Irvine and other people in Santa Barbara without Adventures in L. A. Mass Transit.

But this is all highly tentative, as I am still pricing out the damage. Maybe I will get a car part of the time? Maybe I will blow it all off and see what the NC Outer Banks off-season is like? (Beach. I burn with longing to have sand stuck between my toes, but if I'm going off-season, October makes more sense than April.) Or rent a car in the DC metro area and do a road trip through Shenandoah National Park? I want a break, but I don't want to break the bank.

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ETA: Forgot the really important question, and now I can't fix the poll: who would be interesting in seeing me?

Comments

[charlie-ego.livejournal.com]

Oh, and as for beaches. West Coast beaches suck (you can't swim in them, too cold). NC beaches, as you say, are waaaaay more fun in Sept/Oct than Apr/May.

[ase.livejournal.com]

I'd like to drive down to the Outer Banks off-season (Sept or Oct) for a long weekend, and I've got Chicago/WisCon plans (these predate the January-March explosion of crazy or I might reconsider), and I have all these people in CA I'd like to see/meet. But I'm pricing this out, and 1.) SF and LA are 500 miles apart, so it's dumb to pretend I'm going to hit both in one trip, and 2.) renting a car in LA is inexplicably expensive. ($50 a day plus fees? I am reliably informed that's questionably high.) So I am angsting over budget & etc.

[limnrix.livejournal.com]

I tried out the bus systems when I was there and they're weird but workable, if you're up for such things. It won't get you on any nature retreats, though.

[charlie-ego.livejournal.com]

Have you tried Priceline? I wouldn't use it for hotels, but for rental cars it can save you a fair amount.

(also, are you under 25? that might be why so expensive, if so?)

(also, if you just want to come up to SB, and you have a way of getting to the train station in LA, the train runs here and is cheap! however, I suppose you might like to have transportation while you were in SB, hm)