I finally did it. I went into hock and bought 4 flights around eastern seaboard cities. Well, if you define seaboard as being near water that connects to the ocean eventually. If you don't... then I'm just flying around the east.
It's been a long time since I've taken any sort of substantial trip. The last time I was on a plane was almost 3 years ago, which is sad since I had been on a plane yearly since 1993. Not that I love flying; I just love being somewhere else. I haven't flown in/out of the country for 6 years, so this will be interesting. I hope they let me take toothpaste on board. I can't remember where airlines stand with those sorts of things. It's safe to say I won't bring knitting needles on, but apparently those aren't considered dangerous anymore anyway. Knitters seem like a bunch of pacifists.
Once I finish school, I'll have a couple of weeks to work (gots to get paid before I lose my job) and see as many bands as possible before flying out in May. (Hopefully I'll have paid off the flights by then. Please let my tax return be a huge one!) I'm going to New York, Chicago and Toronto for a couple of weeks, just a little teaser/tester to see if I want to live in any of those places. If you're in any of those places, let me know if you have time to meet up. Or, you know, if you have a place for me to sleep a night or two.
Right now the only things I have on my "to do" list are to visit the Met's Costume Institute library, take a CAF tour (possibly the river one if I'm feeling rich), visit the Art Institute, see if I can find my old supervisor at the ROM (Suzanne McLean, where are you?), eat burgers at the Shake Shack, see a rock show in each city (though the only things I could find so far in Chicago were Tokyo Police Club on the 5th and Black Kids on the 6th, which is disappointing because I can see both of them a week prior), and take as many pictures as I can fit on my camera and maybe try out a couple of toy cameras as well. Other things, too, but these are the shortlist right now. In addition to visiting friends, of course. That's just a given.
I'm pretty excited. The only flight that I'm worried about is the one I booked with Travelocity between New York and Chicago. No idea how reliable Delta is (didn't they crash a lot of planes in the '80s?), but it's stinking cheap. I'll come in just above my estimated/hoped for price, though without any fricking travel points. Bastards.
The silly thing is I still want to go to Chicago in the summer, so this may be a somewhat redundant trip. I just love Chicago a whole lot. Sigh. I need to figure out how to make it happen. And a trip to Edmonton for my dear friend Dulcie's wedding at the end of summer. And maybe a trip to Los Angeles. Or London.
Actually, for about 10 minutes I thought about screwing the trip to the triumvirate and going to London because tickets were so ridiculously cheap. But I need to do this trip right now.
Only 2 1/2 months to go.
3 comments:
Exciting! So when when are you in Toronto?! We'll have to plan something exciting :)
Come to London and we shall gorge ourselves on curries and pork pies!
That would be lovely, wouldn't it? I'll set that up as the next major trip, as soon as I get a job and regular paychecks.
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