I love inconvenient travel, and I have delayed finalizing my plans
until Friday. I can still soar departing GRR for under 500 bucks.
Priceline offered a week long car rental and round trip direct for 500
bucks. A compact is an upcharge from a midsize, ROFL. If I would fly
out of O'Hare, 170 dollars. Still thinking how to roll to Chicago
without baggage of a car. I have booked a car from MKG, and that's 200
bucks for the 10 day period. Yes, I am considering driving it. There's
a casino in French Lick that Donald Trump developed on the grounds of
1845 French Lick Springs Hotel. I hear a half-billion dollars has
accomplished quite a renovation and water from Pluto Springs still has
curative powers. I'm interested in knowing more about the famous
yellow French Lick brick. I've never so much as driven through
Nashville and my route could pass through it. But that's not decided
yet. For the sum of 400 dollars, I can pick up Amtrak in Grand Rapids, roll
with Pere Marquette to Chicago, fly with the Cardinal to
Charlottesville Virginia and ride a Crescent into Atlanta. This
itinerary grants me 7 hours to take in the Museum of Contemporary Art
in Chicago, about five hours discovering Southern charm in
Charlottesville, and the pleasure of rolling into Atlanta in the
morning fog. The return route has an option for layover hours in
Washington, enough time to run through a Smithsonian. Well, visit with
time to browse a gallery or two. I just wanted to allude to that
famous scene from the Goddard movie, running through the Louvre in
Band of Outsiders. 6 hours is enough time to visit .... Oh, that's
another article. Compare this to arriving at an airport in the wee hours, two hours
early after an hour's drive for, with luck, a two hour flight. Without
luck, sitting inside a fusilage upon a tarmac consuming peanuts out of
foil for an indeterminate period of time. Charlottesville and French
Lick show up to me as a flyover city, sending big love by winking
street lights where main street crosses first street. At the airport,
the car rental company wants virtually a car payment each day because
I can't walk away from the octupus of freeways and cement on foot.
Sorry, Washington D.C., Chicago, Toronto and Atlanta: you are all
beautiful examples of public transportation integration with the
airport. Which would you choose, given the choice of air, rail, or
car. And I have all day to make up my mind.
until Friday. I can still soar departing GRR for under 500 bucks.
Priceline offered a week long car rental and round trip direct for 500
bucks. A compact is an upcharge from a midsize, ROFL. If I would fly
out of O'Hare, 170 dollars. Still thinking how to roll to Chicago
without baggage of a car. I have booked a car from MKG, and that's 200
bucks for the 10 day period. Yes, I am considering driving it. There's
a casino in French Lick that Donald Trump developed on the grounds of
1845 French Lick Springs Hotel. I hear a half-billion dollars has
accomplished quite a renovation and water from Pluto Springs still has
curative powers. I'm interested in knowing more about the famous
yellow French Lick brick. I've never so much as driven through
Nashville and my route could pass through it. But that's not decided
yet. For the sum of 400 dollars, I can pick up Amtrak in Grand Rapids, roll
with Pere Marquette to Chicago, fly with the Cardinal to
Charlottesville Virginia and ride a Crescent into Atlanta. This
itinerary grants me 7 hours to take in the Museum of Contemporary Art
in Chicago, about five hours discovering Southern charm in
Charlottesville, and the pleasure of rolling into Atlanta in the
morning fog. The return route has an option for layover hours in
Washington, enough time to run through a Smithsonian. Well, visit with
time to browse a gallery or two. I just wanted to allude to that
famous scene from the Goddard movie, running through the Louvre in
Band of Outsiders. 6 hours is enough time to visit .... Oh, that's
another article. Compare this to arriving at an airport in the wee hours, two hours
early after an hour's drive for, with luck, a two hour flight. Without
luck, sitting inside a fusilage upon a tarmac consuming peanuts out of
foil for an indeterminate period of time. Charlottesville and French
Lick show up to me as a flyover city, sending big love by winking
street lights where main street crosses first street. At the airport,
the car rental company wants virtually a car payment each day because
I can't walk away from the octupus of freeways and cement on foot.
Sorry, Washington D.C., Chicago, Toronto and Atlanta: you are all
beautiful examples of public transportation integration with the
airport. Which would you choose, given the choice of air, rail, or
car. And I have all day to make up my mind.
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