womzilla | A travel surprise

It turns out that it's really, really, really cheap to fly on the day after Thanksgiving.

So I'm flying to Michigan on Black Friday to pick up the car that

nigelpuggle's human mommy is graciously gifting to our household. I'll be driving back on Saturday (and possibly Sunday).

The advantage is this: Even if I end up having to stop for the night mid-way, we'll save about $500 on the cheapest possible auto shipping I could find, the scheduling is completely under our control, and I can guarantee door-to-door delivery, which none of the shippers could do. Books on disc make long distance solo drives quite bearable, so I've already grabbed a couple from the local library--Pride and Prejudice, which I've never read, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, which I read once in junior high and have been wanting to re-read at least since late 2001. (I "read" most of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix driving home from a Santanalia visit to my parents a couple of years back.)

I'm not going to have long to visit in Michigan, unfortunately; my flight is late afternoon so that, if necessary, I can help supervise the end-of-trading-day cleanup at my office. Fortunately, the market closes at 1 PM on Thanksgiving Friday, and cleanup only takes about ten minutes. (There are other people who know how to do most of it, but if any of the systems run into problems, I'm the best person for solving most of them.) But it will be nice seeing

nellorat's siblings, in-law, and nephew even if only for the one evening, and we'll be coming back over Santanalia only three weeks later.