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Team 854 is leaving tomorrow for Atlanta Georgia with an 18 hr bus trip should be lots of fun! Should be an awesome event.

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18 hours??? jeez.. i thought only 8 was bad...

good luck, and enjoy the trip!

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Pff. We've got 22 hours and I know some teams have it worse. I'm going to stay up late so I'm tired tomorrow and sleep most of the way.

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2~3 hour flight anyone?
8:00 am hehe

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We have an ultra red-eye. We leave LAX at 12:40 AM Thursday. We go to Minneapolis for a one hour layover, then go to Atlanta. We arrive at about 10:40. It will be a race to get to the webhug; I'm only carrying on.

A bus ride from here would probably be around 35 hours.

-Daniel

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So what does everyone plan to do on that long long bus ride? I remember last year someone had a nice Xbox and tv set up on the bus, that was very innovative.

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We fly out at 12:17PM tomorrow and get into Atlanta around 3:38PM. Just in time to make it to the WATSON challenge. ( http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...7&page=2&pp=15 )

See you all there,
JT
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P.S. Some lyrics to think about on the ride down:

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Team 1006 also leaves tomorrow with an 18 hour bus ride..........I doubt whether we'll get sleep because we are supposed to be sleeping on the bus :S

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9 1/2 bus ride, need to be at school by 4pm.

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Us too! Though wednesday night at 7:00 PM...

I could never handle a 20 hour bus ride. :ahh:

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2~3 hour flight tomorrow at 8:00 am. YEAH!

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about a 9 hr trip on the bus for us..we pack up tomorrow @ 7 pm from south fork..our lovely pit then head off..so we'll be on the road by 8..so do the math..we'll be in alanta nice and early...some ppl are leaving early to be there wednesday to unpack the crate though...lovely el chupacabra gets out of it's dungeon and will be released into the wild pits.. :D

i can't wait...i have to do tons of hw on the bus before sleeping...one thing i won't find fun the hw to do @ the hotel

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2 hour flight leaving tommorow from orlando arriving in atlanta at 10:50 am just in time for the first rounds of safety advisor meetings :)

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We've got a 12 hour bus ride leaving at noon tomorrow. So we should be at the hotel by midnight. :)

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I'll wave as I fly over. Just be glad it isn't Houston. Leave T.O. 9:30 arrive 11:40. Must admit it's better than the bus. However the bus is way better than staying home. See you all there.

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woot~ I'm seeing how fortunate we are now~ 2:30 - 3 hours in a car

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I'll wave as well. Norfolk to Atlanta Non-stop. 12 hours by bus versus 2 hr plane. I'll take the plane.

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3 am tomorrow morning! 15 hour bus ride! the thing is with our team... we picked the bus over flying cause we like the bus for some odd reason.

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O.K. Out of curiosity, how in the world did discussion about flying to Atalanta get into a thread about riding a bus down there? :confused:

About 27 hours away from the bus trip to Atlanta, and I still have not gotten a bottle of Mountain Dew for the long trip.

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26 hours approximately including border checks :D Gotta luv Canada :P

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We leave at 4am and get there between liek 6:30 and 8ish....that is a 14 hour bus ride. ayeeee...im used to it but i have major problems sitting still and doing one thing for a long period of time..maybe add? lol

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Some people just can't pass up an opportunity to gloat. :rolleyes:

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My team will be leaving at 5 am from my school. 12 hour ride :D hopefully the bus shouldn't smell horrible :eek: but i'll be arriving to the site in time for uncrating

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True...2 non stop hours on a plane beats 12 hours crammed in a vehical with a ton of people.

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It depends on the people! Some people are worth spending 12 hours with, no matter what the transportation (heck, I'd spend 12 hours on a bicycle with Dean any day!)

-Daniel

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In defense of all those taking the bus (I'm flying), it's not just two hours. It's getting to the airport, waiting in the airport, waiting in the other airport for your luggage, getting into Atlanta from the airport. Plus, how is everyone getting all their gear there? My trip is 2 hours by plane, but "travel" time is 6-7 hours.

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Team 772 is now IN ATLANTA!!! I can see the Georgia dome from my room! And the most glorious thing of all... the Fairfield Inn has WiFi. I'd have pictures and stuff but, we're going to the mall in about 15 minutes so I'll do it after...

For the reference of those coming from Canada, we left Windsor at 4:30 AM (in vans), we were through the border by 5:30 and we arrived in Atlanta at 6:00 PM. We have a second group of people driving up tomorrow.

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Yes, it's arriving at the airport parking place by 6:15am, at the airport by 6:30am for gorup check-in, flight doesn't leave til 8; long layover in Chicago; arrive in Atlanta by 5pm; hotel by 6? So 12 hours for us, even by plane! (and picture this - our plane leaves Atlanta on Sunday morning at 6:30ish!)

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Getting back to the comparing of trips...

Twelve hour bus ride ahead of me, leaving at 6:30 tomorrow morning. It might not be quite as nice as flying, but we'll survive. At least we get to go. :)

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OK. Maybe it's not just to gloat. :o I guess one-up-man-ship, I'll-see-your-tale-of-woe-and-raise-you works too. :p

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Our team has a 14 hour bus ride, and we're leaving Pontiac at about 4:50 in the morning tomorrow... I like that, since it makes half the bus ride to Atlanta sleepy-time for me. What could I do for the other 7 hours? I wish I knew. :o

We arrive in Atlanta at about 7:00 PM Wednesday Night.

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Monopoly Tournament!

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Two hour and half to three hour bus ride from Windsor Locks to New York City depending on traffic. Two to two half hour wait at airport. Then two and half hour plane flight to Atlanta can't wait. :eek: :yikes: :p :cool:

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Then there are those of us who see the bus ride as 14 hours of no:
rushing,
dealing with imaginary crisis,
one making their problems my problems,
dealing with real crisis (knock wood),
security checkpoints,

and it's 14 hours spent with some of my closest friends at their upbeat and optimistic best.

Now tell me again: why would I want to fly to Atlanta?

Boarding the bus in nine hours,

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because our bus is leaving so early... most of our team is just staying up all night, and then we can sleep on the bus for most of the 15 hours.

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The bus to take us to the airport is leaving in one hour. Therefore, We're twidling thumbs for now. 2 hours to the airport, 2 hour wait, 2 hour flight, one hour to the hotel. Ten hours to ATL.

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Our 15 passenger van is pulling out of station at 6 p.m. tonight with a 13 hour road trip ahead of us. We are scheduled to arrive in Atlanta between 5-7 tomorrow morning. Just in time to walk in the doors.