SCALE 6x: Getting There
If you read my post on getting the most out of conference attendance, you know that I'm trying to reduce the environmental costs associated with my conference attendance. I even made a plan. As with most plans, real life is a bit different. Here's how I've done:
- Taxi from home to YVR (I would have taken public transit, but I foolishly decided to work on^w^wrandomly screw with my server just before I needed to leave and wound up running late.)
- A flight from YVR to SFO
- The BART (light rail transit) to Glen Park station
- About a mile walk from from the Glen Park BART station to Meerkat Manor. Happily geek out with the lovely Meerkats.+1 day.
- Share a car down to LA with Josh Berkus. It was a nice drive for the most part – good conversation, accompanied by a long, gorgeous pollution-fueled sunset and the occasional awful malodor of a factory farm lurking somewhere out in the dark.
I'll drive back to LA (probably with Josh), spend a few days in the Bay Area visiting Mozilla Corporation and work with a few other friends on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Rasmus has kindly offered me a metaphorical couch for the duration.
All told, I'm fairly with the happy the trip. I cut out four short-and-dirty flights between SFO and LAX. (My own two flights and Josh's two flights, after he cancelled his flights) and used public transit or a shared vehicle for most of the ground travel. Also, I'm staying at friends' houses or in shared hotel rooms.
Of course, I still flew twice – baby steps. :)
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February 9th, 2008 at 3:53
It's incredible that there aren't high-speed trains running along the west-coast of the US stretching into Canada. A TGV-style setup going at 300+ km/h would even make the trip from Vancouver to San Francisco without taking too long (I'd guess 5-6 hours with stops). If it's built to do 400km/h it's probably more like 4 hours. Of course, building 1500-2000km of track is hugely expensive, but I think it's worth it. (And it's still cheap compared to something like MagLev.)
February 9th, 2008 at 8:36
you almost certainly smelled the harris feedlot in coalinga, california. 120,000 head of cattle, as seen from space: http://www.sprol.com/?p=52
February 9th, 2008 at 11:20
We were around Coalinga at the time. It smelled much like were driving in a giant, badly-cleaned litter box.