[Magdalen] Broken Leg Trip

[Jim Guthrie]

It's of to Harrisburg tomorrow for three days of coal company research at the 
Pennsylvania State Archives in Harrisburg.

This being Scranton, we have to stay between Tuesday and Saturday because there 
are no buses timed to allow a full day in the state capitol.

The ticket clerk at the Bus Terminal recently told me that it's cheaper to 
purchase a round trip to Sunbury than Harrisburg even though one needs to change 
buses in Harrisburg. That's left over from a tariff from when there was a direct 
bus to Sunbury, so this may be a bus-type Broken Leg trip for us.

It always pays to check for such when flying too -- as long as there's no 
luggage to check, sometimes fares via a connecting city from the city you really 
want to get to is cheaper than the direct fare. For example, during the years I 
was traveling around the country a lot, my travel agent found a  Los Angles to 
Grand Rapids airline ticket for $168 (change planes in Chicago) when the 
LA-Chicago ticket was $308. One simply "misses the plane" at O'Hare and thus 
saving $140.

Airlines hate it when people discover these "deals."

Cheers,
Jim

"The enemy isn’t liberalism;
the enemy isn’t conservatism.
The enemy, is baloney." - Lars Erik Nelson