This is the plan. Monday morning, I acquire a bike box, disassemble my bike, and load it in. Into the various interstices surrounding the bike I will stuff my clothes and sleeping bag (protected by garbage bags from bike grease), my bike lock and helmet, and maybe my handlebar bag if I can manage it. Three more bags, now lightened by lack of clothing to be (hopefully) less than 50 pounds, will go inside a larger duffel bag so that Greyhound will count them together as one item of luggage. These two will go underneath the bus, while I board with my one allowed piece of carry-on plus an additional bag about which the driver will hopefully not hassle me.
Anyway, I’ve got a rideshare to Atlanta, where I will board the bus Monday evening. I will ride for almost 24 hours, including several transfers and layovers, and arrive hungry and sleep-deprived in Toronto around 7PM on Tuesday, where my mother will pick me up for dinner with my family. After that I’ll hang out with friends, sleep, go to the dentist, hang out with friends some more, probably have Ethiopian lunch or dinner, possibly both, on Wednesday with whoever is interested and available. I’ll sleep again (that irritating but necessary gap in activity), perhaps hang out with people again, and then depart at some point on Thursday for god knows where.
For now, I’m sitting in a library next to an elderly man who is browsing a porn site called “Firm Hand Spanking”. So it goes.
Tell me your schedules, O glorious ones, so that I can begin to construct some sort of itinerary of hanging out. Leave comments or e-mail me and I’ll try to assemble it in my head into some grotesquely intricate master plan in which I get to see you all.
Morgan Page said,
July 13, 2008 at 9:03 pm
I’m working Tuesday night ’til 9, as I mentioned previously, however, I’m free Wednesday night after 7:30. Ethiopian dinner would be yum.
~Morgan
Mom said,
July 13, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Beware of who you sit next to in libraries…
So looking forward to Tuesday night!
Love,
Mom
Ges said,
July 13, 2008 at 10:54 pm
I’m pretty much free the entire time, and anything else taking up time, can be kicked off.
~Ges
mo said,
July 14, 2008 at 12:29 am
tues night i’m free after 11. wed i’m helping a friend move in the pm so daytime activities work better for me. or potentially later evening activities. either way there will be time for some friendly activities… or something…
meowmeow!
mikeb said,
July 14, 2008 at 2:59 am
paul my supervisor is away for over a month
Nicholas Field said,
July 14, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Hey Paul!
Tuesday I’m free but sounds like you’ll be busy then. Wednesday I’m free until 7pm. Perhaps some sort of Ethiopian lunch / early dinner?
-Nick
Mike said,
July 15, 2008 at 5:06 pm
I’m “working” 18:00-0:00 each day this week. My work consists of sitting at a desk and doing occasional patrols, although there are no cameras, and nobody else there, meaning I mainly do the patrols for exercise and because there’s nothing else to do. If you want to drop by give me a call, or we could meet afterward, or before I start tomorrow, or some such.