Impending Travel!
Jan. 22nd, 2023 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nosrednaydujI am going to take some trips!
Ken has a conference in Germany in August. Coincidentally, there is a major square dance convention the next weekend in Frankfurt, which is the airport he will be flying into. I'm not going to the conference, but just to the square dance, and then we will do some touristy things for a few days afterwards and then fly home.
The solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 kind of snuck up on me. It's only 15 months away. We're going to go to Mazatlan, although there was some soul-searching about murder rates and drug cartels. We are staying in one of the heavily tourist areas, and so it will probably be completely safe, because the drug cartels own some of the hotels, and they would like to tourists to stay alive. (I'm kind of making that up; it was mentioned on a forum.) We can't get plane flights yet, so that will be another Internet adventure. It turns out to be fairly difficult to get to Mazatlan from Boston, because there aren't any direct flights, and the places from which there are direct flights tend not to be direct flights from Boston, so you end up stopping twice, or having a four-hour layover or something. We found a flight (of course, 15 months, anything could change) which had a 15 hour layover, and that was ideal. Arrive in Houston at 7 PM, get a hotel, fly to Mazatlan at 10 AM. Hopefully this flight will still exist both in May when we try to book it and the next April when we try to take it.
This might be my last eclipse; the next American one will be in 2044 when I will be 84. I have not investigated eclipses in other continents before then. However, frequently people are shooting at each other on those other continents. (In fact, there is some concern about Mazatlan, thus the above soul-searching. We will be good doobies and do tourist things like take boat rides on the Pacific rather than poking about in dark alleys.)
I'm also going to visit Jocelyn and my stepfather next month, which is very much more boring, though actually fairly complex to set up, with two destinations.
Ken has a conference in Germany in August. Coincidentally, there is a major square dance convention the next weekend in Frankfurt, which is the airport he will be flying into. I'm not going to the conference, but just to the square dance, and then we will do some touristy things for a few days afterwards and then fly home.
The solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 kind of snuck up on me. It's only 15 months away. We're going to go to Mazatlan, although there was some soul-searching about murder rates and drug cartels. We are staying in one of the heavily tourist areas, and so it will probably be completely safe, because the drug cartels own some of the hotels, and they would like to tourists to stay alive. (I'm kind of making that up; it was mentioned on a forum.) We can't get plane flights yet, so that will be another Internet adventure. It turns out to be fairly difficult to get to Mazatlan from Boston, because there aren't any direct flights, and the places from which there are direct flights tend not to be direct flights from Boston, so you end up stopping twice, or having a four-hour layover or something. We found a flight (of course, 15 months, anything could change) which had a 15 hour layover, and that was ideal. Arrive in Houston at 7 PM, get a hotel, fly to Mazatlan at 10 AM. Hopefully this flight will still exist both in May when we try to book it and the next April when we try to take it.
This might be my last eclipse; the next American one will be in 2044 when I will be 84. I have not investigated eclipses in other continents before then. However, frequently people are shooting at each other on those other continents. (In fact, there is some concern about Mazatlan, thus the above soul-searching. We will be good doobies and do tourist things like take boat rides on the Pacific rather than poking about in dark alleys.)
I'm also going to visit Jocelyn and my stepfather next month, which is very much more boring, though actually fairly complex to set up, with two destinations.
Eclipse
Date: 2023-01-23 02:42 am (UTC)The path should cross the backyard of Arthur's younger brother. I would prefer to avoid Texas, though.
Re: Eclipse
Date: 2023-01-23 03:20 am (UTC)https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/2024-april-8
You can search for a city, and it will tell you length of totality or percentage partiality, and if total, probability of clouds.
Re: Eclipse
Date: 2023-01-24 01:02 pm (UTC)https://www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/top-destinations/lanse-aux-meadows