Plans

This infographic/scribble should be useful for dedicated stalkers. With just over a week until I leave Philly (and now that Clare has bought her plane tickets) I’m firming up plans for the ‘holiday’ section of this American adventure. You can see which cities I’m hitting: Los Angeles, Las Vegas, back to Los Angeles, up to San Fransisco, then across to Boston, heading down to New York for a couple more days before having one last night in Philly before flying back to Manchester on May 24th.

It’s an unusual route, I’d have liked to take in more cities (Seattle and Chicago were top of the list), but when you consider that we’re doing all that in 18 days I really wanted to cut down on the amount of time that we spend in the air, because the way I see it every time you involve a flight you basically lose a day of holiday time. I’m even tempted to make San Francisco to Boston (which looks like a cheap route for flights, thankfully) an overnight flight to maximise the amount of useful time we have, that might be taking things a little far, though it would be a night we wouldn’t have to pay for a hotel for!

One region in which I’m struggling is car rental, the underage fees are almost as much as the actual price of car rental! The prices aren’t astronomical though, to the point at which even renting a convertible for our road trip along the coast road from LA to San Francisco isn’t entirely out of the realms of possibility.

On the social side I’ve already had a couple of offer from t-shirt people to hang out, and after meeting David from Seibei I think it would be cool to meet some more new people that I know as an e-mail address rather than a face.

The excitement builds!