{"id":373,"date":"2005-10-11T12:06:18","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T12:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2005-10-11T12:06:18","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T12:06:18","slug":"early_tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/early_tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Early tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The things we do to save money&#8230;<br \/>\nI get to leave my house (that contains my bed!) at 0430 tomorrow.  Yes, that&#8217;s frackin&#8217; early!<br \/>\nI have to take public transit (ugh) to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flyoakland.com\">OAK<\/a>, where my flight to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metwashairports.com\/Dulles\/\"> IAD<\/a> leaves from.  Now, if you&#8217;ve read this blog in the past, you will find that I&#8217;m an avid fan of transit, <strong>PROVIDED IT&#8217;S DONE RIGHT!<\/strong>  Like it is in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyometro.jp\/index.htm\">Tokyo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtr.com.hk\">Hong Kong<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smrt.com.sg\/smrt\/index.htm\">Singapore<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratp.fr\/\">Paris,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mta.nyc.ny.us\/nyct\/subway\/\">New York City<\/a>, etc etc.  It ain&#8217;t done right here.  Period!<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s why I&#8217;m whining (even though the ticket was US$218, a good deal).  I have to wake up and grab the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfmuni.org\">bus<\/a>.  That&#8217;s a 30 minute bus ride to go a bit less than 4 miles. BLEAGH!  Then I have to transfer to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bart.gov\">BART<\/a> train which gets me to the Coliseum station in about another 30 minutes.  That&#8217;s about 20 odd miles or so.   THEN, I have to wait for an &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flyoakland.com\/bart_airbart.shtml\">AirBart<\/a>&#8221; shuttle that may (or may not) show up for another 20 minute (2 mile) ride to OAK so I can check in at least an hour early for my flight that leaves at 0740.<br \/>\nKeep in mind that driving takes 40 minutes or so (with traffic), but since I&#8217;m going to be on the East Coast for a week, it&#8217;s not cost effective to park the car at the airport.  That would basically negate the &#8220;deal&#8221; I got on the ticket because flights from SFO are US$80-90 more to IAD.<br \/>\nUrban planners call the distance between your house (or destination) and the train station\/stop the &#8220;transit gap&#8221;.  Tomorrow, I&#8217;m going to be spanning a lotta gaps!<br \/>\nAnd the worst thing is that this is a domestic flight so that means no food!  Yup, cut food and raise the fares.  That&#8217;s a gRRRRREeat business model.  And since this is OAK, there&#8217;s no food in the airport either!  No McDonald&#8217;s in the terminal.  Nada.  No food!  Nothing!<br \/>\nGrrrrr.  A Sausage McMuffin on the plane ain&#8217;t a bad breakfast!!!  It&#8217;s pretty good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The things we do to save money&#8230; I get to leave my house (that contains my bed!) at 0430 tomorrow. Yes, that&#8217;s frackin&#8217; early! I have to take public transit (ugh) to OAK, where my flight to IAD leaves from. Now, if you&#8217;ve read this blog in the past, you will find that I&#8217;m an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/early_tomorrow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Early tomorrow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-61","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}