SPN con adventure update

[vyperdd]

Made major progress with booking things for my big Con trip to the USA which is just 2 months away.

It's going to be quite the mixed adventure as I'm doing all my internal travel on Greyhound buses -- LA-Vegas (5 hours), Vegas-Denver (23 hours) and Denver-LA (19 hours) The last two legs are overnighters, thereby saving myself 2 nights accommodation. Where I'm staying is even more interesting, ranging from 6-bed dorms in hostels in LA and Denver to the 5-star Sheraton (PasCon) and Marriott (DenverCon) hotels on the con weekends. In between I'm staying for 4 nights at the 3 star El Cortez hotel & casino in Vegas that my travel agent found for me for just $67/night.

Now that travel and rooms have been taken care of, I can put all my savings towards spending money for merchandise and photo-ops at the 2 cons and general day-to-day living expenses. The budget is still going to be super tight but I know I'll have enough to have a good, fun trip.

Autos & Photos I'll be getting are:

Denver- Autos (All included with Gold ticket)
Jared, Jensen, Misha, Mark Sheppard, Gil McKinney, Tahmoh and Mark Pellegrino

Photos paid for-
Jared x2, Jensen x2, J2

Photos I'd like to get (depending on budget)
Mark P, Gil, Tahmoh.

Pascon - Autos (included with Gold ticket)
Jared, Jensen, Misha, Mark Sheppard, Osric, Kim Rhodes, Ruth, Brianna, Richard, Matt, Travis, Kathryn Newton

Extra autos-
Rob Benedict ($25)

Photos paid for-
Jared, Jensen, J2

Photos I'd like to get (depending on budget)
Kim, Richard/Matt/Rob triple

Comments

[heavenli24.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it's going to be awesome :). I'm flying out to the US from London next Saturday to stay with relatives and to attend DallasCon :).

I haven't travelled on Greyhound buses (I took an Amtrak train from LA to NYC - 3 days on the train, so 3 nights of accommodation sorted and it only cost $120), but my brother took the Greyhound from New York to LA and unfortunately he hated every minute of it :(. It was mainly because he's almost 6 feet tall and the seats were too cramped for him, plus he didn't have much to do on the bus so he was totally bored... he actually read 2 books (and he does not read books, ever!). The minute he got to LA he was so fed up that he called our aunt in Arkansas and got her to book him flight to stay with her! He had no money anyway though... so I have no idea how he was expecting to survive a week in LA with no hotel booked and only $60 in his pocket :S.

However, I've spent many hours on both day and night buses in South America and I didn't find it that bad (one bus journey in Bolivia was 12 hours with no toilet on the bus - we just got a couple of rest stops with a hole at the side of the road!).