Wasting Valentine's Day on an airplane
Feb. 13th, 2024 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nosrednaydujI'm going on a trip! It's not as complicated a trip as I had hoped it would be, because we had to cancel the scuba diving plan due to impending storm in Southern California. Apparently visibility will suck and storm surge will suck and possibly bacteria counts will suck. So I'm going to come home a day early, which did not actually even cost any money to change my flight. Probably because I'm changing from a midday flight to a redeye, and therefore they are happier to possibly sell the midday seat for more money to somebody. Although, there weren't many seats left on the redeye. We will see how much the redeye sucks. It didn't suck as much as I expected it to when I took one to Germany over the summer.
However, there will still be vast complexity: I start by flying to Sacramento, renting an electric car, staying overnight in Roseville (30 miles from SMF), driving to sugar bowl ski area (82 miles), skiing most of the day, driving to Chico (121 miles), having dinner with my stepfather, staying overnight in Chico, stopping in at the assisted living place where my mom lived to say hi to the staff, driving to Sacramento airport, flying to LAX, renting another electric car, having dinner with a friend, and going to a square dance all weekend, culminating in the redeye home on Sunday.
I have scoped out charging stations for this ski plan, and it should work. I wish that there was a closer motel than Roseville. It sort of surprising that there isn't something in Auburn. Anyway, I will try to charge to 100% in Roseville, where there is a fast charging station a mile walk from the motel, so I will plug-in, walk to the motel, check in, mess with my stuff, walk back to the car where it will hopefully be fully charged, and go to sleep, so I can get up, hopefully early enough to charge again at the 70 mile mark before going up to the ski area so that I can make Chico without having to charge again. There's tons of charging in Chico, including supposedly at my hotel, except for the fact that the Internet says that charging station is under repair. Then it's 90 miles to Sacramento, and I have to return the car 70% charged (or pay $35), but there is a fast charging station at the gas station at the airport, and so I can just like eat my lunch or something while I wait. Or I can decide to pay the $35.
It will be much easier in LA, because I'm hardly going anywhere; the dance is fairly near the airport. I haven't even bothered to scope out charging stations yet.
However, there will still be vast complexity: I start by flying to Sacramento, renting an electric car, staying overnight in Roseville (30 miles from SMF), driving to sugar bowl ski area (82 miles), skiing most of the day, driving to Chico (121 miles), having dinner with my stepfather, staying overnight in Chico, stopping in at the assisted living place where my mom lived to say hi to the staff, driving to Sacramento airport, flying to LAX, renting another electric car, having dinner with a friend, and going to a square dance all weekend, culminating in the redeye home on Sunday.
I have scoped out charging stations for this ski plan, and it should work. I wish that there was a closer motel than Roseville. It sort of surprising that there isn't something in Auburn. Anyway, I will try to charge to 100% in Roseville, where there is a fast charging station a mile walk from the motel, so I will plug-in, walk to the motel, check in, mess with my stuff, walk back to the car where it will hopefully be fully charged, and go to sleep, so I can get up, hopefully early enough to charge again at the 70 mile mark before going up to the ski area so that I can make Chico without having to charge again. There's tons of charging in Chico, including supposedly at my hotel, except for the fact that the Internet says that charging station is under repair. Then it's 90 miles to Sacramento, and I have to return the car 70% charged (or pay $35), but there is a fast charging station at the gas station at the airport, and so I can just like eat my lunch or something while I wait. Or I can decide to pay the $35.
It will be much easier in LA, because I'm hardly going anywhere; the dance is fairly near the airport. I haven't even bothered to scope out charging stations yet.
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Date: 2024-02-14 05:33 pm (UTC)Auburn really doesn't have a lot of draw to get people to stay overnight there. You might have better luck in Nevada City, and then do the back roads to join up with 80.