NealRomeoGolf
Final Approach
Unless something goes sideways, I will be picking up a six month contract next week that will require me to travel regularly to the middle of nowhere. This middle of nowhere town does have an airport with approaches. For purposes of non-disclosure, can't tell you exactly where. Here is my conundrum:
Flying commercially would take me 6.5 hours (not including travel to the airport and being early to check in) on the outbound (one connection) and then I'd have a 90 minute drive to the town with a rental car. The outbound would be a Sunday afternoon. Inbound (going home) takes 6 hours, but the last flight I could get home leaves at 1:30pm which is not ideal. I'd have to drive the 90 minutes and be an hour before the flight. You basically lose that day going home.
Flying myself is a 4 hour flight. But once I get to the airport, it is a 3.5 mile distance to get into town. There are no rental cars. I could bring a bike, but the US highway that gets you into town has no shoulder. The town supposedly has a crew car and I'd have to ask them if I could have it for the week while I'm there. If I could get the car, that solves a lot of problems. If I can't, what transportation option is the best not only to get into town but then to get around town to go to their whopping 2 restaurants for meals.
As we get into winter I'll have to go the commercial route just to stay out of icing. But until then, what would you do? Or what other transport ideas do you have? I can fit a lot in the Lance, but no, I'm not putting a motorcycle in the back.
Flying commercially would take me 6.5 hours (not including travel to the airport and being early to check in) on the outbound (one connection) and then I'd have a 90 minute drive to the town with a rental car. The outbound would be a Sunday afternoon. Inbound (going home) takes 6 hours, but the last flight I could get home leaves at 1:30pm which is not ideal. I'd have to drive the 90 minutes and be an hour before the flight. You basically lose that day going home.
Flying myself is a 4 hour flight. But once I get to the airport, it is a 3.5 mile distance to get into town. There are no rental cars. I could bring a bike, but the US highway that gets you into town has no shoulder. The town supposedly has a crew car and I'd have to ask them if I could have it for the week while I'm there. If I could get the car, that solves a lot of problems. If I can't, what transportation option is the best not only to get into town but then to get around town to go to their whopping 2 restaurants for meals.
As we get into winter I'll have to go the commercial route just to stay out of icing. But until then, what would you do? Or what other transport ideas do you have? I can fit a lot in the Lance, but no, I'm not putting a motorcycle in the back.