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Pennsic XLIII
Sir Edward:
It's about 5.5 hours for us as well. What we've done usually, is to gather everything into one spot in advance. Then, pack the truck first thing in the morning on the day that we're going, and make the long drive starting before lunch. That we we can get there with plenty of daylight, set up the tent, then look for something to have for dinner. By doing the return trip in a similar fashion, the two travel days are quite manageable, and still have some time left over to do things on site.
If you go to the event for 5+ days total, setting aside two of the days as mostly travel isn't so bad.
Thorsteinn:
IIRC it's a 3+ day drive from here depending on if you drive 8 or 12 hrs a day.
6+ hrs to Pennsic? Hell We had someone drive 6+ hrs to get to West Crown weekend event from here. :)
For us almost all SCA events are at least 2+ hrs away and usually 3-4. While the geographic center of the kingdom is 30 miles east, the pop center is 140 miles west. (the West is smallish, only 615 miles side-to-side).
Aiden of Oreland:
Hey, I live in PA, and its still a 5 hour drive for me! I would go this summer, but I would have had to make plans months in advance. It doesn't help I don't have a car yet, so it'll have to wait for next summer. Gives me time to. Save up money for it too.
Ian:
--- Quote from: Thorsteinn on 2014-06-22, 16:20:15 ---IIRC it's a 3+ day drive from here depending on if you drive 8 or 12 hrs a day.
6+ hrs to Pennsic? Hell We had someone drive 6+ hrs to get to West Crown weekend event from here. :)
For us almost all SCA events are at least 2+ hrs away and usually 3-4. While the geographic center of the kingdom is 30 miles east, the pop center is 140 miles west. (the West is smallish, only 615 miles side-to-side).
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Thorsteinn, I don't think the East Coast guys understand that West Coast reality of everything being a 3+ hour drive. A normal errand out in the West is road trip in the East. :)
Thorsteinn:
--- Quote from: Ian on 2014-06-22, 17:49:01 ---Thorsteinn, I don't think the East Coast guys understand that West Coast reality of everything being a 3+ hour drive. A normal errand out in the West is road trip in the East. :)
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Yeah I noticed how everything seemed really close together when I was out east for work a few years back (sorry I didn't say "Hi" back then. I wasn't yet part of the Order). I remember weirding out someone from back east by saying that Seattle was, for a week long trip, gladly only one days drive away. He said "but that's got to be close to 700 miles!?", and I replied "Yep, about 12 hrs", which for a week long trip isn't undoable.
Hell my last college class was 34 miles from my home to the next closest town. Just 45 min each way twice a week. It was not uncommon a few years ago to drive 120 miles round trip every holiday to see all my family, and I never left "the Reno Metro Area".
Which reminds me, I've got to plan my & my Fiancee's day trip to Sac. Figure it to be 4.5 hrs of driving in total.
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