Re: JaxLug Road Trip

(Another try...)



> I've taken many 600 mile one day trips and only once had a serious car

> problem. On planes, I regularly have delays, missed connections,

> almost-lost wallets while putting myself back together after stripping

> for the feds, and for the past five years I've never had a plane trip

> that involved less than four hours of non-plane time. And you guys are

> driving 3 hours just to get to Orlando.



Well, Jax to Louisville is rather more than 600 miles.  The shortest

practical route by road is I-10 -> I-75 -> I-24 -> I-65 via Atlanta,

Chattanooga and Nashville.  It's 767 miles (11 hours 19 mins) according t=

o

Google Maps.  That's a loooong drive if you have to be alert for a class

the next day.  Not that it's not doable, just no fun.



In their case, they can get a direct flight from Orlando to Louisville, s=

o

they don't have to worry about missed connections.  And although in this

case they can car-pool, if they were making the trip individually at

current gas prices, they could probably fly cheaper than they could drive=

..



I hope to be there myself, and I will be driving, though in my case I now

live in Kentucky anyway, so it's only about 200 miles for me.



> If you drive, you're pretty darn sure you'll get there on time. In a

> plane, not so much.



I try to avoid flying too, if only out of protest at the ridiculous TSA

crap.  Although I'm a Linux Geek for my day job, I'm a firearms instructo=

r

in my copious free time, so pretty much everything I have is likely to

contain traces of powder residue, etc...



However, in their case I would say flying makes sense.  Louisville

International airport is only about 6 miles from where the class is being

held.



Regards,

Ozz.



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