[pct-l] Getting Home...

[m_factor at hotmail.com (Mara Factor)]

Check out American West and other cheapo airlines when you're done.  They 
don't seem to have as steep a markup for last minute purchases that other 
airlines have.  And they only sell one way tickets so you're not paying the 
one way markup, either.

In any case, visit the P.O. and mail anything that can't fly with you home 
by ground transport.

Also, if you really don't need to rush, I recommend taking some time in the 
northwest before you head home.

If you end up with time, you can always do what I did last year...  I bought 
a car in California and took ten weeks to drive it 9000 miles back home.  I 
sold it for more than I bought it for when I got home.  LOL

Mara

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>From: Chuckie V <rubberchuckie@yahoo.com>
>To: PCT-List <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
>Subject: [pct-l] Getting Home...
>Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:11:19 -0800 (PST)
>
> >>>Any advice out there on how to get home at the end of the hike? I'd 
>like to have a plane ticket, but I'd also like to buy it before it is 
>really really expensive (i.e. well before I finish the hike). On top of 
>that, I don't want to have a ticket go unused if I have to bail out on the 
>hike. Any suggestions for getting home quickly and inexpensively?
>-mike
>
>Quickly and inexpensively likely means flying. I'm sure you're already 
>aware that you cannot fly with some hiking/camping items. If time wasn't an 
>issue, I'd recommend the Dirty Dog. I took the Greyhound from Boulder to 
>start my hike in 2002 and it made my hike seem like an absolute walk in the 
>park, which of course, it actually is. 'Bus time' is hell on Earth, no 
>doubt.
>
>-Chuckie
>
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