{"id":353,"date":"2001-06-04T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2001-06-04T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=353"},"modified":"2001-06-04T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2001-06-04T11:43:00","slug":"room_wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/room_wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"room wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"

i hate planning travel. i love travel once i get started, but the planning and coordinating of schedules is pants. you all know about my impending seattle trip (19 days!), but what you don’t know is that my car is crap and i don’t trust it to drive the piddly 300 miles, round-trip. yes, that’s how unsure i am of it.
\ni thought it would be a great idea to take the train. i love trains. i come from a family of train people. both my grandfathers worked the railroad, as did my dad and my great-uncle. and those are only the relatives i know about. according to amtrak, there is only one train per day per direction between seattle and vancouver. no problem, i thought, my schedule is fairly flexible. well, the one train from vancouver leaves at 6pm and arrives at 10pm. that is just a little too late for dinner at the space needle.
\nthen i thought, no big deal, i’ll go friday night, book an extra night at the hotel and then just cab to the airport to meet rick’s plane saturday. nope. the hotel’s $120 US funds per night. i’m so not paying that. i could get a cheaper hotel to stay in, but then after check out, i’m left wandering around seattle with my bags for hours until his plane arrives. no. not going to do that, either.
\nthat leaves me one option: find someone to put me up for the night. of course, none of the cool<\/a> seattle<\/a> bloggers<\/a> even know i exist, so the chance of them finding this plea and rescuing me are nil. the one other journal-person<\/a> i know just found out she’s pregnant, so the last thing i want to do is attempt to barge into their life right now. especially considering we’ve not yet met. i haven’t talked to chuck in well over a year, so i’m not going to ask him and i don’t even know if ed still lives there (which is a pity as he lived in the same neighbourhood as the hotel we’ll be staying at).
\nwell, that’s the option if i want to take the train. i’ll probably end up on the hot, sweaty, crowded bus, goddammit. i can’t wait to change into my posh frock in the bus station lavatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

i hate planning travel. i love travel once i get started, but the planning and coordinating of schedules is pants. you all know about my impending seattle trip (19 days!), but what you don’t know is that my car is crap and i don’t trust it to drive the piddly 300 miles, round-trip. yes, that’s …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}