[Magdalen] Broken Leg Trip

[Lynn Ronkainen]

wouldn't renting a car for the day be more convenient?

Lynn


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From: "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 10:33 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: [Magdalen] Broken Leg Trip

>
> 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