170 Miles to Jacksonville
Sep. 26th, 2022 05:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerI checked out of my hotel in Orlando, Florida late this morning, getting out ahead of Hurricane Ian after my company canceled our big annual conference this week. As I described previously, I was unable to find a reasonably priced flight out of Orlando until Wednesday but I was able to find a good one out of Jacksonville Tuesday morning. So... after taking a Lyft to MCO airport I rented a car and drove to JAX airport.
As drives go it was a fairly easy one. 170 miles, pretty much all highway. The driving time was about 2:40. I added a lunch stop making it about 3:30 door-to-door.
Some of my colleagues who heard about the planes-trains-and-automobiles thing I was doing expressed sympathy for the craziness I had to endure. Enh. I know for some people such a drive is not easy, though for me it's close to trivial. And the planning and re-planning with reservations is kind of "All in a day's work". I've been a road warrior for a lot of years. This isn't my first rodeo. (How's that for mixed metaphor?)
Well, the hotel I'm at this evening is nowhere near as nice as the one I left. I'm at the airport Doubletree. It's pretty meh. Instead of a balcony overlooking a massive pool deck I have a small window— that doesn't open— overlooking a dull pool. The resort in Orlando was unusual for a business trip. This is par for the course.
Tomorrow morning my flight out of JAX leaves at 8:36am. If it's on time. I was watching local news over dinner downstairs in the hotel restaurant. Hurricane Ian is strengthening in the Gulf of Mexico. I'm definitely glad I'm further north now. Still, even if the center is a few hundred miles away tomorrow morning, the hurricane could produce enough winds and rains that flights are delayed or canceled.
Keep reading: Jacksonville was far enough north that I got out safely Tuesday morning.
As drives go it was a fairly easy one. 170 miles, pretty much all highway. The driving time was about 2:40. I added a lunch stop making it about 3:30 door-to-door.
Some of my colleagues who heard about the planes-trains-and-automobiles thing I was doing expressed sympathy for the craziness I had to endure. Enh. I know for some people such a drive is not easy, though for me it's close to trivial. And the planning and re-planning with reservations is kind of "All in a day's work". I've been a road warrior for a lot of years. This isn't my first rodeo. (How's that for mixed metaphor?)
Well, the hotel I'm at this evening is nowhere near as nice as the one I left. I'm at the airport Doubletree. It's pretty meh. Instead of a balcony overlooking a massive pool deck I have a small window— that doesn't open— overlooking a dull pool. The resort in Orlando was unusual for a business trip. This is par for the course.
Tomorrow morning my flight out of JAX leaves at 8:36am. If it's on time. I was watching local news over dinner downstairs in the hotel restaurant. Hurricane Ian is strengthening in the Gulf of Mexico. I'm definitely glad I'm further north now. Still, even if the center is a few hundred miles away tomorrow morning, the hurricane could produce enough winds and rains that flights are delayed or canceled.
Keep reading: Jacksonville was far enough north that I got out safely Tuesday morning.
