I was gonna bitch about this more,

[camwyn]

but as I went into the restroom, all fuming and fussing, I encountered someone from our International Services department. She had a bundle of Red Cross messages that have to be delivered to people's family members in Liberia because ordinary communication isn't happening there.

God's way of telling me to shut up and quit complaining, I s'pose...

Anyway, here's the deal. USAir sold out of seats on the day I wanted to go to Canada in January, so I went to Priceline. In a fit of pique I told them that I wanted a ticket for $100 from La Guardia to Buffalo on 3 January (a Saturday), returning on 10 January (also a Saturday). I assumed it would laugh in my face and tell me to go away.

I was wrong. I got my ticket. There's taxes and stuff, so the total is $143, but within two minutes an airline accepted my offer.

Problem: now I have to get from my part of New Jersey to La Guardia airport for an 8:30 AM flight. I mean, thank God it's domestic rather than into Canada; I can get there at 7:30 instead of something earlier, but really. That's gonna be a trick and a half getting there early enough. I don't suppose any of y'all on my friends list have advice on how to go about accomplishing this without trusting the *shudder* long term parking lot?

Comments

[ocean-song.livejournal.com]

Congrats on making the ticket happen. I don't have any advice on the rest of it, but I just wanted say how cool it was that you are going to Canada. And also that you are not going to Liberia. When I first started reading your post, I thought that was going to be your final destination, and was a little worried that you'd be keeping your body and your knitting needles in one piece. Take care, have fun!

[camwyn]

Liberia is exactly the kind of place I had in mind when I told you that there were some assignments that could persuade me to get a tattoo. If there's any place in the world that'd make me want my medical information tattooed on my shoulder blade, it'd be there- or possibly Sierra Leone and the other blood diamond countries. Medical info down the shoulder blade, Red Cross flag on the right arm, Red Crescent flag on the left... but no. Not going there. Going to the Civilized Lands instead, thanks.

[mephron]

If you don't mind dropping a little money, the Hotel Pennsylvania is at 34th street across from Penn Station, is about $90/night, and you can pick up shuttle buses from nearby - the PABT, or maybe supershuttle - for reasonable prices as well.

Since you saved so much on the tickets...

[camwyn]

Oh, if I'm going to be staying in New York the night before, I have the addresses of several hostels and am in the process of chasing down schedules and stops for the M60 bus. That may in fact be simpler than trying to get out there early in the morning, and I like hostels better than hotels anyway.