Stormcrow wrote:

This is something you need to get over sometime, don't you think? And wouldn't you like to go for it at a time when there will be such lovely people waiting for you on the other end? I mean, Mocha, Gio, and Yasha will be there for sure! And half-a-dozen other beautiful women are fairly likely as well. If you do think you'll be able to make it, make sure you don't room alone, that way you're less likely to get lost on the way to stuff.

I know, I know. You people are awesome, so I wouldn't be surprised if after a few days in NY I'd be turned into an illegal immigrant who refuses to go back.

If I'm able to do this, I'd probably stay at the Carlton Arms too because I'm cheap. And I'd have to have a single because none of you would survive sharing a room with me. I'm kind of torn between the private vs. shared bathroom, though. I'm kind of fond of the bathtub, though. I like to soak...but I'm oversharing.

As for when to do this, May is fine. I'm betting Memorial Day Weekend would be a bitch.. In my mind though, it would have to be a weekend for those of us who can't take a week off, so I'd have to leave Thursday after work and fly that night with me returning on Sunday.

However, I say all this without knowing what the hell I'll be doing then.

I started looking at travel packages and they all suck. I haven't seen anything for less than $900 so far. So I'll have to do the Carlton, and probably fly Jet Blue. At the moment, it's looking like it will cost me around $700 total, $1000 with spending money. If Jet Blue has another Houston/NYC special like they have now, I'll save around $75-$100, which will knock me down to around $600.

Now if my job and my finances don't fight me, it's totally doable, overprotective aunt or not. She doesn't have to know I'm going.

Raven Nightshade wrote:

I started looking at travel packages and they all suck. I haven't seen anything for less than $900 so far. So I'll have to do the Carlton, and probably fly Jet Blue. At the moment, it's looking like it will cost me around $700 total, $1000 with spending money. If Jet Blue has another Houston/NYC special like they have now, I'll save around $75-$100, which will knock me down to around $600.

Are you using Yahoo!Travel? I was looking for prices too, and (flying from Barcelona to Paris and then to JFK-NYC) the price range I found there goes from 450$ to 1000$ for return tickets.

Is there an option to get the tapes afterwards? You know, as a memento? (:

Ok, now I understand why it's so expensive

I'm not in, I'm so jealous of you all that are. I can't tell lies, especially to my family, and their reaction will be "You? Alone? With a group of Internet freakies you know nothing about? Have you gone crazy?", even if I avoid telling them about IFD
...

Besides, it's so freaking expensive, and, though I like traveling by plane, I have the feeling that such a jet-lag could mess up my trip And traveling alone is not something I enjoy doing, either. Though I would love to try if I can get to NY

:hug: Wish you could make it, Asfalolh.  If things change and you can get here after all, there'll be a real-life :hug: waiting for you on the other end!

Arki wrote:

Well, Asfalolh... If everything goes well in Barcelona & if I get to go to NY, you wouldn't be lying if you said you're meeting up with a friend you know from RL.

I hadn't thought about it, and it COULD work.
The main problem now is how to explain them that I want to fly 6.000 miles for a con. It crashes with their mentality.

satyreyes wrote:

:hug: Wish you could make it, Asfalolh.  If things change and you can get here after all, there'll be a real-life :hug: waiting for you on the other end!

Thanks, satyr.

If I manage to make some money in the next months, maybe, just maybe, it could be possible. I have some savings, but I don't want to fly with no money for emergences. I will look for a partial-time job, though the semester looks hard.

Epi_lepsia wrote:

Asfalolh, we can see us in the salon del manga de Barcelona this year, maaaaybe i'll go...

I will be looking forward to it

Last edited by Asfalolh (08-05-2007 01:08:13 PM)

I've been briefly researching train tickets, and I've been thinking. How about meeting up in a central location of a state (or states), and traveling in a group? Group travel appears to be cheaper than going individually, not tomention you have buddies so you're not bored on an 6-8 hour trip.

Hey, group travel may be a great idea! If dollface is in Charlotte, then I'm only two hours away from her. Otherwise, that would be a huge bitch of a ride and I know I sure as hell wouldn't want to be stuck on a train alone for about eighteen hours

Although, I've also got a friend in Jersey--though I'm not sure if she'll be there at the exact time during break--but that could also makes staying a little easier for me if I could work this out. I'm in college, but my parents still get very skittish. "I'll be with a good college friend in New Jersey," sounds a lot better than "I'm meeting random internet people I've never met before in NY." Plus, she loves Utena too and I'm sure would be exstatic. Holy crap, I hope that works.

Although I really can't go if it's late May, since I'll be a bridesmaid. Crap, I wish more colleges really synched up their schedules.

Last edited by Frau Eva (08-05-2007 03:33:56 PM)

I'm still not entirely sure how we're going to be getting there just yet. My mother's boyfriend is a pilot, so we'll probably end up flying down to New York. We might end up driving, but the first option would probably be best, since we shouldn't be driving in New York.

I really hate trains. I know that it's biased to hold the fact that we ran into a child molester the first and only time we've ridden on a train against all trains, but I still hate trains. (Thank God for actually listening to your parents when they tell you not to follow strangers.)

I've always wanted to go to NYC *starry eyed*

But I can't =/

I'll just sit at home and pray for there to be a good turn out and wait for the San Fransisco meet

perhaps. . .
iunno~

=___=

morosemocha wrote:

Cerise wrote:

Any romantic ideas for us?

CARRIAGE RIDE. CENTRAL PARK. It's only a little cheesy, but totally beautiful. I have a picture of my parents on one, and it's one of the sweetest pictures I have of them.

I'm glad to hear the recommendation, as it was sort of top of our list for romantic ideas.   Okay, it's pretty much the only thing on the list of "romantic" ideas, but still!