Getting Even Further Around
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If you are not lucky enough to live in California, but you have a long travel to get there, you maybe want to arrive there early (or leave there late) and look around a bit more in the additional days of your stay.
Optimization task:
- if you do it alone, it is maybe a bit boring, and expensive
- travelling with some fellow F/OSS geeks is more fun
- car rental and fuel costs are best for 2,3,4 persons, depending on size of car and luggage
- car rental is e.g. 320 USD per week for a toyota prius (good for 2 passengers + lots of luggage, low fuel costs). So, if you share that car, you save 160 USD per week + half of the fuel costs.
- motel room costs are best for 2n persons (usually 2 beds, you pay per room and night, not per person)
- motel is usually about 60 USD. So, if you share a room, you save 210 USD per week.
- national park entry is usually(?) per car (not per person)
Thus, for the folks wanting to stay longer, we obviously need a bit of coordination to have more fun and less costs.
So, if you are staying in California for longer than the 2 summit days, enter your data in the table below, so that people with matching dates / plans can get into contact with each other:
| Name | coming | leaving | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lionel Dricot | ploum AT ploum.net | ~2009-10-22 8PM, SFO | 2009-10-29 7AM, SFO | Flights still not booked. Coming from Belgium, I want to enjoy a bit the area before coming back and keep the budget as low as possible. Main interest : geeks stuffs, freediving and buying fivefingers. |
| Alex Yahja | alexy AT uiuc DOT edu | ~2009-10-11 or sooner, SFO | 2009-10-25 or later, SFO | 2-3wk CA trip, looking for one person to share car. |
| Ralf Joachim | ralf DOT joachim AT syscon DOT eu | 2009-10-22, SFO | 2009-11-06, SFO | I like to make a round trip in CA and further. Already rented a intermediate car for this trip. Planing of the trip is not finished yet but probably include: Sakramento, Lake Tahoo, Yosimite National Park, Mono Lake, Death Valley, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, over parts of Route 66 to Los Angeles, back to San Francisco on N1. |
| Obey Arthur Liu | arthur AT milliways DOT fr | 2009-10-21 Noon, CDG-SFO | 2009-10-26 Night, SFO-JFK | Visiting San Francisco itself mostly by foot or public transportation (yes, I'm that crazy) before going to NYC to do the same for another week. |
| Dirk Haun | dirk AT haun-online DOT de | 2009-10-18 evening, FRA-SFO (via YYC) | 2009-10-26 morning, SFO-FRA (via YYC) | Staying in San Francisco (SoMa) prior to the Summit. Interested in meetups, day trips, tourist-y stuff I missed on my last two visits. No car, so public transport for me, too ... |
| Jason Cleeland | jason AT cleeland DOT org | 2009-10-22 9:30pm, SFO | 2009-10-27 7pm, SFO | Visiting & staying San Francisco city area for two days after summit to see cable cars, twisty streets, golden gate bridge, barbary lane [cheesy grin] and other touristy locations :-) Interested in being tourist with others. Not sure where to stay in the city area. |
[edit] Bike Riding
I've noticed that you can hire bikes from Fishermans Wharf and I'm a bit interested in going riding. If anyone else is interested in doing this after the summit, let me know. Pushy Way To See The Bay Jason Cleeland
[edit] Geocaching
Is anyone up for some geocaching? If so, let me know rediguana@gmail.com - I will probably stay for a couple of extra days to go caching :) Haven't yet finalised my movements as I'm heading elsewhere in the US after the summit. I will probably have a rental, and am quite comfortable driving on the wrong side of the road! Will add my details to table later this week as once more travel details are fleshed out.
Note: as you'll quickly notice, they drive on the RIGHT side of the road. But even if one knows that and is used to it, one has to be a bit careful when doing a left turn into a bigger (4 track) road. :)
LOL - that's OK, I've been to the US before and have probably driven at least 5k miles on the wrong side of the road ;)
