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More lines from Closer (and, more importantly, travel insanity).

"I wasn't stalking, I was lurking. And when I wasn't there, you looked for me."
"How would you know if you weren't there?"
"Because I was there, lurking from a distance."

"Were you spying?"
"Lovingly observing -- with a telescope."

Booking a $700 flight from Boston to Charlottesville for March 16 to hear Ruth Graham speak at [Poll #452549]
Of course, someone would have to pick me up from the airport (Ari says she can't) and there's the question of how long i should stay....

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Crap, of course I neglected to click on "round trip," so it's actually closer to $400. Sorry. Taking a bus would be even more grueling, I imagine, but that actually *would* cost under $200.

Hmm, given the unweildiness of trains/buses, it looks like plane would be the best bet. Would you or Jan be able to pick me up at Charlottesville airport? (There are flights that get me in at 1pm, 1:40, or 2:55 -- i imagine the one that lands me around 4:30 would be cutting it a bit close, but i have no idea when the lecture is or anything.)

(And what would the timing like if you took me back to Hollins and then back to Charlottesville? since i have to have a return date to book a flight)

I think Charlottesville is about 45 minutes from Staunton/MBC. I don't know for sure what Jan's schedule is on Wed. afternoon, but if she's been planning on this trip, I'm guessing she hasn't made any commitments after her class that ends at 3:00, so we could leave at 3:00 and *probably* pick you up with just enough time left to make it to the program... but I will need to talk with her about it in the morning to make sure, obviously. We might be cutting it close.

We'd take you back to Hollins with us that evening, and I could deliver you back to Ari on Friday afternoon...

Yeah, the MBC website says Charlottesville Airport is 45 minutes away. If Jan has other commitments, i totally understand and i'm sure we'll meet sometime down the road.

Yeah, I need to go to bed, but I'll e-mail Jan first and hopefully have some answers and be able to think more clearly about all of this tomorrow. I'm also wondering about alternative means of getting you from the airport to MBC... Anyway, I'll see what I can figure out.

I'm also wondering about alternative means of getting you from the airport to MBC...

I was thinking taxi, but if it's a 45+ minute drive, that's gonna be one hell of a taxi fare i would imagine. Though maybe Jan has friends at MBC who could pick me up ;)

I should have some definite info by midafternoon... Jan can't leave campus earlier than 3:00, but I think she'd be willing to come to C-ville if the time frame is doable... which I'm still not entirely sure about. I would of course be happy to help out with taxi fare, too, if that seemed the only smart way to go...

How do you feel about the whole scheme by the light of day? Still up for it? :)

Okay...another thought. What if you flew into *Roanoke*? That would totally solve the picking-you-up problem, assuming you could book a flight that arrived before Jan and I are planning to leave for MBC (probably 4:30)! The only problem is that flying into Roanoke and out of C-ville would make things more expensive... You could just fly out of Roanoke, of course, but that would rob you of time with Ari and that makes me feel sad... Hmm...

There are flights that get me in to Roanoke around 2pm or 3:15pm. I can ask Ari if she thinks her roommate would mind driving all the way to Charlottesville (and again, chipping in for a taxi is always an option, though obviously not a particularly attractive one).

The Roanoke airport is literally 5-7 minutes away from campus, and it would be so easy for me and Jan to swing by and get you before driving to MBC. We would still get to MBC early enough that we'd have some extra time to hang out with Ari. It seems that would make a great deal more practical sense, except for that fact that you wouldn't get that extra night with Ari, since I don't know how you'd get back from MBC to the Roanoke airport if my dad and I still dropped you off there on Friday... I'm off to my Jan-meeting now and will look into some stuff.

Mmm, this is looking like a good plan. (I totally hadn't realized you were so close to Roanoke or i would have mentioned it earlier, since the MBC website mentions both Roanoke [85 miles] and Charlottesville [85 miles] airports.)

You could drop me off at MBC Friday night as planned, and i could taxi or bum a ride from an Ari-friend to Roanoke on Saturday. (Or, if Ari thinks that's a bad plan, you could drop me at Roanoke Friday night and i could book my flight accordingly -- though looking at travelocity it's looking like there aren't many flights from Roanoke-Boston that evening.)

Okay, this sounds great. Yeah, I can't believe I didn't think of you flying into Roanoke earlier... that was just plain dumb of me, but my sleep-deprived brain was fixated on Charlottesville for some reason. :P Anyway, I just got back from talking with Jan, and she's totally into it, thinks it's all very cool and a great opportunity. (She was all, "Ohhh! Liz Carr! She's a good friend!" but didn't elaborate.) We would pick you up on Wed. afternoon and head to MBC... and Jan said that the Ruth Graham thing, in her mind, has mainly been an excuse for me to meet Ruth Ellen all along, and she doesn't even care if the three of us come with her to the actual event, though we're certainly welcome to. I'd drop you off at MBC around midafternoon on Friday, probably, and Jan even suggested that on Saturday, she might be able to pick you up halfway ('cause Staunton really isn't THAT far from Hollins) if Ari's roommate or somebody drove you back, though I'm not sure if she was just "thinking out loud" or if her schedule would actually be clear enough to do that. At any rate, it does seem that all this could work out! :D

Okay, you guys. I was asleep all afternoon after our staying up too late talking to you guys, but here's my take:

All that sounds really, really nifty... especially the part where I have minimal work to do. I am slightly jealous that you guys would get to spend more time together, but it does sound more realistic, logistically! So I'd be perfectly happy if you went with that plan.

We would pick you up on Wed. afternoon and head to MBC... and Jan said that the Ruth Graham thing, in her mind, has mainly been an excuse for me to meet Ruth Ellen all along, and she doesn't even care if the three of us come with her to the actual event, though we're certainly welcome to. I'd drop you off at MBC around midafternoon on Friday, probably,

That does sound like it would work... but I think at this point the main question has been answered, and it will work. So, SQUEE!

and by "I can ask Ari if she thinks her roommate would mind driving all the way to Charlottesville" i meant "all the way to Roanoke," since she already said Charlottesville was probably okay *facepalm*

*grin* okay, I wondered if that's what you meant. It wouldn't hurt to ask.

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