Your Correspondent in Colorado
Jan. 12th, 2004 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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bugshaw's journal I am even further away than usual right now: Colorado Springs, for the next week and a half on Job Related Stuff.
The trip out wasn't too bad - BA to Chicago, then US Airlines to Colorado Springs. Business class is out of the question as an employee of HMG, but I managed to persuade my boss to agree to sending me World Traveler Plus (BA's premium economy) where you get economy service (still very good, mind you) but about 20cm extra legroom, which I really appreciated. I'd planned a 3-hour layover at Chicago to cope with immigration and security, but as it turned out I was through those in 20 minutes and then had a 90-minute delay to my onward flight (not to mention two trips across Chicago O'Hare as our departure gate was changed). The upshot of all this was that on arrival I slept solidly to a sensible getting-up time Sunday, despite the 7-hour time difference.
The weather out here is pretty good right now, even a bit warmer than average for the time of year (about 10C rather than freezing). The view is incredible: Colorado Springs is at the edge of the Rockies, so looking east there is nothing but miles of prairie, but turn around and you're facing Pike's Peak and Cheyenne Mountain.
Best bit of all, of course, will be next weekend whenbugshaw is coming out to join me! It's a bank holiday weekend over here (Martin Luther King Day) and - and this is something I honestly didn't know when I planned this trip! - the local fandom are running a convention. Well, it was just a matter of booking myself into the con hotel for the trip and waiting for the con to arrive on my doorstep... :-)
More later,
MC
bugshaw's journal I am even further away than usual right now: Colorado Springs, for the next week and a half on Job Related Stuff.The trip out wasn't too bad - BA to Chicago, then US Airlines to Colorado Springs. Business class is out of the question as an employee of HMG, but I managed to persuade my boss to agree to sending me World Traveler Plus (BA's premium economy) where you get economy service (still very good, mind you) but about 20cm extra legroom, which I really appreciated. I'd planned a 3-hour layover at Chicago to cope with immigration and security, but as it turned out I was through those in 20 minutes and then had a 90-minute delay to my onward flight (not to mention two trips across Chicago O'Hare as our departure gate was changed). The upshot of all this was that on arrival I slept solidly to a sensible getting-up time Sunday, despite the 7-hour time difference.
The weather out here is pretty good right now, even a bit warmer than average for the time of year (about 10C rather than freezing). The view is incredible: Colorado Springs is at the edge of the Rockies, so looking east there is nothing but miles of prairie, but turn around and you're facing Pike's Peak and Cheyenne Mountain.
Best bit of all, of course, will be next weekend when
bugshaw is coming out to join me! It's a bank holiday weekend over here (Martin Luther King Day) and - and this is something I honestly didn't know when I planned this trip! - the local fandom are running a convention. Well, it was just a matter of booking myself into the con hotel for the trip and waiting for the con to arrive on my doorstep... :-)More later,
MC
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Welcome, welcome!
Date: 2004-01-12 08:16 pm (UTC)Re: Welcome, welcome!
Date: 2004-01-13 04:42 pm (UTC)MC
Through in 20 minutes
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Date: 2004-01-13 04:39 pm (UTC)MC
Re: Through in 20 minutes
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Date: 2004-01-13 02:04 am (UTC)When negotiating travel requirements, start higher - demand your own personal Learjet and work down to Business Class!
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Date: 2004-01-13 04:41 pm (UTC)Both have been overruled by an order that, to save money, nobody travels business or first class. Apparently there are nasty stories in the papers if taxpayers hear that we're travelling in luxury...
MC
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Date: 2004-01-13 03:11 am (UTC)ISTR a rather splendid preserved steam engine locomotive on the edge of town, which we both explored and took various silly pictures around...