VINTAGE COMPUTER FESTIVAL 8.0 NOV 5-6

[Wayne Smith]

> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 10:10:17 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com>
> Subject: Re: VINTAGE COMPUTER FESTIVAL 8.0 NOV 5-6
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> On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 07 September 2005 09:18, Jules Richardson wrote:
> > > Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> > > >  \__/|     * VINTAGE COMPUTER FESTIVAL 8.0 *     |
> > > >
> > > >      |            NOVEMBER 5-6, 2005             |
> > > >      |          COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM          |
> > > >      |         MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA         |
> > >
> > > Hmm, how far is California from deepest Minnesota? I'll 
> still be in 
> > > the right country then at least ;-) Could well be road 
> trip time...
> >
> > Google says 2300mi from Hibbing, MN to Mountain View.  
> Plane tickets 
> > would be a 'better idea'.  At 30mpg and $3/gal, that's $230 
> each way 
> > for gas alone.
> 
> I don't want to discourage Jules from trying, but any plane 
> trip out of MN is going to cost at least as much as driving 
> (jet fuel prices are going through the roof).  The trade-off 
> is (if by plane) you get there faster or, (if by car) you get 
> to see a lot of America.
> 
> I wish the airline industry in the States would finally just 
> collapse and then rebuild itself into something more viable.  
> I'm trying to get a flight to Vienna and prices are all over 
> the place...above $2,000! Ridiculous.  I had an opportunity 
> to get a flight for under $750 yesterday and got distratcted. 
>  When I came back to do it again today it's now under $800 
> but with a 14 hour stopover in Madrid.  It would be fine if 
> it was during the day but it would be at night, I'd have to 
> get a hotel, the Euro kills the dollar (Hans, I am drinking 
> heartily from the Euro mug), and I just don't have time (as 
> much as I'd love to walk around Madrid for the 8 hours or so 
> I would be afforded after sleep).
> 
> Sorry for the rant.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage 
> Computer Festival

According to Expedia, Minneapolis to SF is $255 round trip (leaving on
11/4 returning on 11/6) and Minneapolis to SJ is $332.  Second tier
airlines (then again, these days what's the difference), but pretty
cheap considering the payoff once you get to VCF.  Of course you have to
drive from Hibbing (childhood home of Bob [Zimmerman] Dylan, by the way)
to the big city first, which is a bit of a trek, but there's always Camp
Snoopy at Mall of America to even further justify the trip.