My longest commute

[resqgeek]

Today, I set a personal record for my longest commute to work. I started at my parents' house in upstate New York, and ended at my office, some 370 miles away, arriving by 9:40 this morning. It also marks the first time that my commute to work has included an airplane! I was out of bed by 3:30 this morning, so my father could drive my brother and I to the airport in Buffalo. My brother had a 6:00 am flight to JFK in New York City, and I had a 6:30 flight to Baltimore. When I arrived in Baltimore, at about 7:40, I caught a shuttle bus to the Amtrak/MARC rail station located just outside the airport and bought a ticket for the MARC commuter train to Union Station in Washington, DC, where I switched to the subway to my office.

Except for the early start, it was a very pleasant trip, and I'm happy that I was able to get here in time to work a full day, without making my wife drive up to Baltimore to pick me up. I'm also quite pleased with the price. My one-way airfare from Buffalo to Baltimore was only $57.20 on Southwest Airlines, and MARC and Metrorail added less than $9.00 additional to that cost. At the current gasoline prices, it would have cost more for me to have driven!

Comments

[skyring.livejournal.com]

It's about $1.30 a litre here. The council is making noises about a public transport system for the increasingly oil-short future.

I loved Union Station. I don't know what it looks like from the outside, but inside it's glorious! Site of my first American biscuit - the sort with gravy, and I'm sorry now that I didn't buy some of the tacky 2nd GWB inauguration souvenirs on special there.

Is Southwest Airlines as crazy as they say, or does it take until after lunch and a few beers for the pilots to get into their fun-lovin' stride?

[resqgeek]

I'm not sure how crazy they say Southwest Airlines is, but I had no problems with my flight. Of course it was the first flight of the day, so that might have been a factor, so who knows?