not lewis&clark, but hey

[piranha]

i have acquired tickets.

and since 80 hours on a bus was just not challenging enough all by itself, i've added a ferry through the inside passage to the return trip. :) i've wanted to do the inside passage for years; no better chance than this.

here's the itinerary:

date	dep time	city	date	arr time	where / what	transport	hours
sep 10	10:00	nanaimo	sep 13	20:20	montréal	bus + ferry	82:20
sep 14		montréal	sep 21		farthing frolic
sep 21	11:00	montréal	sep 21	19:25	toronto	bus	8:25
sep 21		toronto	sep 22		frolic w/ graydon
sep 22	17:15	toronto	sep 25	20:10	prince rupert	bus	74:55
sep 25		prince rupert			sleep
sep 26	06:00	prince rupert	sep 27	12:30	port hardy	ferry	18:30
sep 27		port hardy			sleep
sep 27	09:00	port hardy	sep 27	16:10	nanaimo	bus	7:10

oh, this will be fun, FSVO of cheerfully nutso fun.

Comments

[futabachan.livejournal.com]

Will you have any spare time (for a meal, say) in your Toronto stopover, or is it all spoken for?

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

time is probably less an issue than energy, though there isn't much time either since i can't delay my return trip to port hardy in order to meet that ferry (it does not go every day). i'll have been on the road and continuously in the company of strangers for 12 days by that time. that is ... i don't even know how i'll do that, frankly. i haven't spent that much continuous time in the company of strangers in a decade. graydon i've known for ages, and i've argued myself into stopping to see him with the rationalisation that he can handle if i am a wreck. i don't know that i'll be in any state to actually have a conversation with another net.pal who is as yet a relative stranger.

it's not that generally i wouldn't like meeting you -- i would, so this isn't a blow-off. but i don't know whether i'd be able to rub two neurons together to actually have a conversation. and whether i want to travel within toronto in addition to the trip from the greyhound to graydon's and back the next day. i really don't know, and i am afraid that i won't be able to tell until i am actually there. if you're flexible about the mealtime, send me your phone number in email, and i'll promise i'll call you to either set something up or say at least "sorry -- i am such a lamer".

[velochicdunord.livejournal.com]

Well, if you _do_ have energy (or need a place to crash at any point) I'd be up for dinner. Want the phone numbers in email?

I'd volunteer to drive you up to where ever Graydon's hanging his hat these days... except that the car went off the Car Heaven(TM). Oh heck, I can rent if it helps things along and I get to say "hello". :)

I'd have loved to go up to Jo's, but I'm Not Allowed Out to Play until this portfolio foo-forah is done.