Travel Expenses, or Why I Stay Home

[greygirlbeast]

Okay, so. Back on January 16, 2010, I posted just how much it cost me and Spooky to travel from Providence for me to take part in a reading at the Montauk Club in Brooklyn, a post that included an itemized list of our expenses that night. $111.46, total. And we were only gone about 12 hours, something like that. The point of making that post was to

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[readingthedark]

"The only thing I can guarantee for readers of Starve Better is this: your checks will not arrive on time." Nick Mamatas (from the Introduction)

[nihilistic_kid]

Thanks for the link to the book! I hear you, re: travel. Providence is a great town, but except for Boston it's difficult to get anywhere else from there. And even with Boston it can be a trick. I once spent six hours alone in Warwick, having flown in on the last, cheapest plane. I read two novels waiting for train service to begin at 6am (and the shuttle to bring me there at 5:30am).

I think I saved maybe $75 that way, which isn't much, but I just didn't have $75, and couldn't ask my girlfriend at the time to meet me at the airport at midnight Sunday to drive me thirty minutes or more to Somerville, when she had to be up at 5:30am for work.

[seph_ski]

I really hope people don't give you a hard time about how you spend your money, how you travel, or why you don't travel more often. Those are personal choices you should not have to explain to -anyone-, no matter what your reasons for your choices.

[whiskeychick]

^This.

Although, I'm very grateful you were able to make it to Portland last year so I could meet you.

:: taps foot anxiously waiting for her copy of Starve Better to arrive ::