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Thanksgiving plan
Nov. 19th, 2003 03:12 pmo Saturday morning, pick up Enterprise car. They cut $90 off their discount price for a 9-day rental to match my USAA[1] discount on the same rental with Avis, and also changed the mileage from "pay per mile over 2000" to "unlimited". Yay!
o Drive toward Chicago until we have to stop. Should we go through upstate NY? Or Connecticut then Pennsylvania? I'm soliciting recommendations.
o Sunday, arrive in Chicago. Take my step-father's aunt Nancy[2] to dinner.
o Sunday-Tuesday nights stay with Mike H, a member of the group-apartment I put together when I moved off campus. Hopefully visit also with Jenny (another of that group), Josh, and Katherine the Red-Headed Eep. Show Brandi around Hyde Park and reminisce about college. Eat at Giordano's. Walk by the lake. Be bummed that I couldn't get there in time for Too Much Light's Sunday performance.
o Wednesday, drive to Detroit. Meet Brandi's family. Stay in hotel. Thursday, explore neighborhood, reminisce about Brandi's growing up years. Thanksgiving with family, stay in hotel. Hard to predict how family stuff will go, but recent contacts bode well.
o Friday-Saturday nights, Niagara Falls. Stay in $28/night hotel acquired through hotwire.com. Observe monstrous amounts of water shredding into fog as it plummets unceasingly off a cliff. Factory Outlets, IMAX theater. Process Detroit.
o Sunday morning, drive home!
Total distance: 2015 miles plus side-trips. $1.50/gal highway gas, guessing 32 mpg vehicle, means ~$95 spent on gas. Ouch.
[1] My dad was a Navy pilot.
[2] She who, among other things, gave me a place to stay for a month when my first romantic relationship blew up horribly, rendering my dorm uninhabitable at the end of my 2nd year.
o Drive toward Chicago until we have to stop. Should we go through upstate NY? Or Connecticut then Pennsylvania? I'm soliciting recommendations.
o Sunday, arrive in Chicago. Take my step-father's aunt Nancy[2] to dinner.
o Sunday-Tuesday nights stay with Mike H, a member of the group-apartment I put together when I moved off campus. Hopefully visit also with Jenny (another of that group), Josh, and Katherine the Red-Headed Eep. Show Brandi around Hyde Park and reminisce about college. Eat at Giordano's. Walk by the lake. Be bummed that I couldn't get there in time for Too Much Light's Sunday performance.
o Wednesday, drive to Detroit. Meet Brandi's family. Stay in hotel. Thursday, explore neighborhood, reminisce about Brandi's growing up years. Thanksgiving with family, stay in hotel. Hard to predict how family stuff will go, but recent contacts bode well.
o Friday-Saturday nights, Niagara Falls. Stay in $28/night hotel acquired through hotwire.com. Observe monstrous amounts of water shredding into fog as it plummets unceasingly off a cliff. Factory Outlets, IMAX theater. Process Detroit.
o Sunday morning, drive home!
Total distance: 2015 miles plus side-trips. $1.50/gal highway gas, guessing 32 mpg vehicle, means ~$95 spent on gas. Ouch.
[1] My dad was a Navy pilot.
[2] She who, among other things, gave me a place to stay for a month when my first romantic relationship blew up horribly, rendering my dorm uninhabitable at the end of my 2nd year.
