From thefridayfive...

1) What is your favorite mode of travel? (Car, train, plane, etc).

For long distances, definitely planes.

2) Where is the northernmost place you've traveled? The southernmost?

Copenhagen, Denmark back in 2005 or so. The southernmost of Los Angeles, for Dorsai Thing in 2007.

3) What is the last place you visited for the first time?I ( Read more... )

This past weekend was pretty quiet. Being too injured/sore to drive 5 hours to Confluence, I instead took Amtrak down to davinwarter's place on Friday night, and spent the weekend there.

I did very little of my usual online stuff over the weekend, but instead spent most of it sleeping, socializing with Davin (who I haven't seen outside of a con in years), ( Read more... )

If you plan on taking the train to Pittsburgh, you can get 10% off the cost of your fare.

More information can be found on our travel page.

Enjoy!

I've just made the decision to attend FurCoNZ in 2011.

It'll be a good excuse to visit New Zealand, as well convince some of my Australian friends to make the trip as well. (Are you listening, atpaw? :-) )

Amazingly enough, my flight out to Chicago still appears to be on time. But I'm certain that US Scareways will still find a way to screw things up.

Anyway, let's hope that they don't ever have this unfortunate kind of in-flight programming on the flight:

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I can only wonder what JetBlue was thinking!

Edit: The video that was being ( Read more... )

While searching for "odds of a plane crash" on Google, I came across this article, which talks about surviving a plan crash -- something I find far more useful! In the article, the FAA gives the following 5 tips:

1. Count the number of rows between your seat and the nearest exit. This is because if there is a fire, the cabin will fill up quickly ( Read more... )