Getting to Vegas

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[Poll #1089599]

   If I take my carmovehicle, I can leave for Vegas and from Vegas whenever I happen to feel like it. I believe parking at our hotel is free (I'll check on that in the morning). Also packing is easier because I can put whatever I feel like in my trunk.
   If I take Greyhound I have to find parking in Anaheim or Santa Ana (the closest stations) and hope its free or not too expensive, bus apparently takes 7 hours to traverse the 272 miles that google says should take my car 4 hours; and then it deposits me five miles from my hotel and I gotta taxi it up I guess.
   Bus fare is $85 "standard" fare or $56 "casino" fare (I can't for the life of me figure out what makes casino fare casino fare). I think driving might actually be more expensive in gas.

   Actually I think writing out the pros and cons has convinced me of which route to go, but heck, I've already written this, may as well post. (=

   Anyway, I loathe Vegas with a passion, but its the AMWEST Model UN conference there this weekend and I'm going with team Northern Arizona University (NAU) and its gonna be awesome! (=



   In unrelated news, I think every girl I've talked to in my French class is taking dance classes. A.Wall, Devon, girl that sits in front of me, avant-gard-fashion-girl, and most unexpectly this punkish girl Ashleigh who's hardly ever there and I pointed out to her all the other girls were dancers thinking she'd think it was weird too but she was like "yeah so do I."
   Silly JC kids, still trying to live the dream.

Comments

[davyjones6.livejournal.com]

after taking the train up to seattle. and numerous delays from amtrak and greyhound.. i would suggest taking your car.. :) but since you've already decided hhehehe it doens't really matter.. i just like to take polls..

[xaositecte.livejournal.com]

272 Miles \ 25 miles per gallon = 10.8 gallons to get there, and another 10.8 to get back.

At 5$ a gallon (I saw a headline somewhere that gas had gotten up that high) - you're looking at ~108$ round trip.

And if there's one thing I learned from Lost, it's that 108 is the magic number. Even if you choose otherwise, seemingly coincidental events will conspire to make you take your car, whether you want to or not.

[michaelpop.livejournal.com]

I've only taken Greyhound once, up to San Jose for New Year's Eve 1999, and it was the worst ordeal ever. It took like 48 days to get there. Unless you absolutely have no other means of transportation, avoid taking the bus.

[neugotik.livejournal.com]

I took the greyhound from Oregon to Minnesota once - long trip. I got some interesting experiences out of it - weird bowling alley stop w/blacklights - no real food for the _entire trip_ (we just stopped at poorly stocked gas stations the whole way - the _best_ food stop was in S.Dakota wefinally stopped at a Dairy Queen.Yup.the best of the 3 day trip -gah.

I was in no rush - yet the constant, every 10 minutes it seemed, stops in tiny towns to maybe pick up someone,but usually not.. kinda drove me nuts. What was a 24 hour drive (1.5 days) doubled. And you can't pick where to stop. And some lady sprayed an entire bottle (exageration) on herself of nastyperfum. right before she got off the bus. The rest of us breathed her perfum for 2hours. & a nasty onboard toilet. and.. er.

If you couldn't drive, I'd take the train,honestly.

[mia76.livejournal.com]

well just look how many people agree with me! tsk!

mega bus?

[thetalesend.livejournal.com]

http://www.megabus.com/

[pavel-lishin.livejournal.com]

I, for one, am a control freak - if I'm going somewhere, I like knowing that I'll have transportation readily available at a moment's notice.

The exception is, of course, if I'm going out drinking, in which case I'd rather catch a ride with a flake and risk sleeping in someone's backyard.