If there’s such a thing as a Rube Goldberg triatholon for getting someplace with the most changes in transportation, I may have won it yesterday. Here’s how my day went:
- Start in South Bend.
- Drive to customer site
- Walk to lunch and back
- Drive from customer site to Chicago Midway airport (100 miles away)
- Make it to Midway an hour before takeoff (closer than I’d like)
- Turn in car and hop a plane to Providence, RI
- Enjoy a nice talk with my seatmate about (what else?) sailing!
- Hop off plane in Providence, hail cab to train station
- Walk from train station to nearby mall and back to kill time
- Hop train to Boston South Station
- Take Silver Line subway to Logan airport
- Pick up hotel shuttle to hotel
I got here around 10 PM, with plenty of time to relax. It didn’t make sense to rent a car in Providence since my customer is right next to Logan. Thus, I’m taking a one-way flight from Boston to Raleigh this afternoon to complete the complicated trip.
Sometimes I wonder if the myriad ways I travel could be considered art. But then I think about something else equally stupid. 🙂