gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Default)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2008-09-22 01:22 pm
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I really should do an unlocked version.

Per [livejournal.com profile] kshandra's request, I've f-locked the actual itinerary for our trip to the 2009 Worldcon. But I feel the rest of you deserve at least the basics.

We're flying out of SFO on Monday, August 3rd on a redeye. After a long breakfast in Detroit's airport, we arrive in Montréal around noon-ish on Tuesday, and hopefully can get into the hotel room and die. Assuming a successful resurrection in the evening, perhaps meeting up locals for dinner. From what I've read, Old Montréal is best seen at night, so maybe do that.

Wednesday we're planning on a little sight-seeing. We will, of course, need to see The Village ("We bring greetings from The Castro!") and I'm told that there are in fact penguins. Kiri and I are both fiends for old churches and graveyards, so we'll want to see those. After a long, exhausting day spent seeing Really Cool Things (and probably getting lost at least once) we return to the hotel.

Thursday through Monday is the con. I'm sure there will be points where we'll emerge from the The Palais des congrès de Montréal needing to do something different.

Tuesday, we depart from Trudeau International at 1740. Since this is an international flight, I want to be there early, but the possibility of squeezing one more look at something is there.

Coming home, we have a short lay-over in the Twin Cities, and are dumped, dead to the world, at SFO at around midnight. We then confuse a SuperShuttle Driver by giving directions in our newly-acquired Québécois French and trying to pay with oddly-colored money.
kshandra: long-haired woman silhouetted against a stormy sky (Bad)

Speaking of oddly-colored money...

[personal profile] kshandra 2008-09-22 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
...we should look into how much of it we'll need to rent a mobility device for me. I don't like admitting how limited I am, as you know, but I will be dipped in soft shit before I spend half the convention curled up in our hotel room, crying because I hurt too much to do anything.

([livejournal.com profile] grimmwire, if you can try to source a scooter [ideally one that's actually plus-size rated], that would be thirty-one flavors of awesome.)

EDIT: I just tried to look for pointers on the Anticipation website, and got the following:

Results of search for disabled:
0 pages found out of 635 pages searched.

That there does not appear to be ANY sort of disabled participant services department concerns me. :-/ So I've asked in [livejournal.com profile] anticipation_09, and will ask in the Facebook community when I get home tonight.
Edited 2008-09-22 21:05 (UTC)
kshandra: Butterfly-shaped pewter paperweight, engraved with the Serenity Prayer (Serenity)

Re: Speaking of oddly-colored money...

[personal profile] kshandra 2008-09-22 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
And I have started a dialogue. I am relieved almost to the point of tears.

[identity profile] fearsclave.livejournal.com 2008-09-22 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
We need to get you out to Hurleys.

This, of course, assumes that you are partial to Irish pubs :).

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2008-09-22 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Well just twist my arm.
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[personal profile] thebitterguy 2008-09-22 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
The Biosphere does have a very nice penguin attraction.

EXPO 67

[identity profile] jeffreyab.livejournal.com 2008-09-23 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
You might venture out to the islands where the 1967 World's Fair was held and see what is left of the future that was going to be.