The Drive To Atlanta

[LittleGirlGreen]

Originally Posted by Stud Man Dan

3 hours to atlanta from Ft. Lauderdale :-)

No joke man, I'm doing it. (Well... from Boca at least.) Audi A4. Y'all haven't seen me drive stick before, have ya? :: passes the other 710ers in a laughing frenzy of joy:: I'm leaving Wednesday at around 4 pm, so I should get to Atlanta in time for dinner.

[Sean Schuff]

32 foot Bounder motor home pulling a 14 foot team trailer. 6MPG if we're lucky!

[Andrew Rudolph]

A few of us from 1083 are rollin to atlanta in my 1999 Nissan Quest SE. It looks like this but wont be sportin the 212's but it does have 2 10's in the back

[RLopez]

team 384, will be riding down there on tuesday night on a bus..
i, myself will be Riding/driving on sparky 5.0 (our bot) all the way down there.. lol just kidding..

-Rhaisa

[Heretic121]

date :Tuesday 6:30pm est
from : Local PD (closests and biggest place near team "leader/nazi woman's" house)
In : A Peter-Pan Tour bus (i just love the name =P)

[Kit Gerhart]

Originally Posted by Andrew Rudolph

A few of us from 1083 are rollin to atlanta in my 1999 Nissan Quest SE. It looks like this but wont be sportin the 212's but it does have 2 10's in the back

Is this a racing minivan? Maybe I should put numbers on my '89 turbo 5-speed Caravan.

[ahecht]

Those of you that are bussing long distance, I am curious as to why. Was is a safety thing with the school district (yes, I know airplanes are safer than busses), or a cost issue?

I know that when we did the math on traveling from Massachusetts to Atlanta, it was significantly cheaper to fly than to bus.

[George A.]

Originally Posted by ahecht

Those of you that are bussing long distance, I am curious as to why. Was is a safety thing with the school district (yes, I know airplanes are safer than busses), or a cost issue?

I know that when we did the math on traveling from Massachusetts to Atlanta, it was significantly cheaper to fly than to bus.

I know at least for my team, that since we won the Palmetto regional and had one week to make arrangements, that to fly from New Jersey to Atlanta would cost approx $800 for plane and hotel. Thats a pretty hefty sum to come up with in a week. Instead we decided to take a coach bus down. While it will be an 17-20 hours bus ride , the cost was lowered the nicer sum of $355. This also allowed for more members to accompany the team to Nationals.

[Figment]

I think for our team (233) from florida it was cheaper to just bus and it sounded like fun. I'm looking forward to spending 8 hours on a bus with a bunch of pink people. What could be better than sitting next to someone who has pink hair, a pink face, a pink hat, a pink shirt, pink pants, pink shoes, and pink anything else you can think of . Pink is the best color of all, by far. Seriously though, chillin on a bus is way cooler than a plane cuz u can actually stand up and not get yelled at by a flight attendant, not to mention we can watch anime the whole way there on the tv screens. The airlines usually don't play anime on a trip from orlando to atlanta, at least from my experience.

btw, good call on the racing minivan Kit I think the caravan would make a great racecar if u put 233 all over it.

[CyberWolf_22]

We will be leaving Killeen, Texas at 7 pm Tuesday for a 20 hour bus ride to Atlanta on a 40 passanger bus with only 14 people.

[Matt]

We will be flying from Az. I so wish we could go by bus though. We could have so much more fun but our school says if you go more then 300 miles you must fly to that destination. So we must fly. We could be out of school for so much time it would be great. My parents left today with all the equipment that we will need. We could not take it on the airplane and so some how we needed it to get there. So they are driving. It is 1800 miles from here to Atlanta. I so wish I could be with them but I have to go to school because of a stupid reason. See all you guys there. Keep safe and have fun.

[Melissa Nute]

Buses will be more fun. Its was cheaper for my team to go on the bus also, but then again it is only a 6 hour drive.

[Kit Gerhart]

Originally Posted by Figment

I think for our team (233) from florida it was cheaper to just bus and it sounded like fun. I'm looking forward to spending 8 hours on a bus with a bunch of pink people. What could be better than sitting next to someone who has pink hair, a pink face, a pink hat, a pink shirt, pink pants, pink shoes, and pink anything else you can think of . Pink is the best color of all, by far. Seriously though, chillin on a bus is way cooler than a plane cuz u can actually stand up and not get yelled at by a flight attendant, not to mention we can watch anime the whole way there on the tv screens. The airlines usually don't play anime on a trip from orlando to atlanta, at least from my experience.

Also, we are only little past the "break even on time" distance, when you consider time to the airport, check-in time, wait at the gate, boarding, the flight itself, taxi to the gate, bagage collection, wait for transportation to the hotel, etc. The bus trip should be about 8 hours. When you add it all up, flying would be maybe 5 hours. If I were making the Space Coast to Atlanta trip by myself, I'd almost definitely drive, while if I'm going from here to my my "old" home in Indiana, I fly unless I need to get a car or lots of stuff from one place to the other. Flying is MUCH quicker for the FL to IN trip which is about a 17 hour drive, even with only minimal break time.

[fred]

We are flying down there, I thought it would be cheaper to drive, but then again, I'm only an ignorant programmer who doesn't know all of the logistics of what is cheaper and what isn't. For us, I think the Car trip would have been around 12 hours (ball-park estimate) and the plane ride is only like 2 hours or less. The negative part is that we have to be at school and ready to go at 5:30 AM Wednesday.

BTW: If I was drivin, it would only take 10 hours

[Ryan Albright]

Originally Posted by Figment

I think for our team (233) from florida it was cheaper to just bus and it sounded like fun. I'm looking forward to spending 8 hours on a bus with a bunch of pink people. What could be better than sitting next to someone who has pink hair, a pink face, a pink hat, a pink shirt, pink pants, pink shoes, and pink anything else you can think of . Pink is the best color of all, by far. Seriously though, chillin on a bus is way cooler than a plane cuz u can actually stand up and not get yelled at by a flight attendant, not to mention we can watch anime the whole way there on the tv screens. The airlines usually don't play anime on a trip from orlando to atlanta, at least from my experience.

btw, good call on the racing minivan Kit I think the caravan would make a great racecar if u put 233 all over it.

Yes from Florida it is def cheaper to bus. Airfares from florida were starting at 200 a person, so we opted to bus, but then a few students are driving so we can have cars to go out i am leaving with ultimatep at 130 today to head up to gainsville we are spending the night there and leaving there and going to atlanta and hopefully be there about 130 tommorow and i think we are giong to go to the coke musuem. The rest of our team that are taken the vans we rented leave tommorow at 5 am..o well sucks for them

Mapquest said it will take 10 hours and 27 min to get from Ft. lauderdale Fl to Atlanta so we are planning to make it in 8