I have a plan.
But can it be implemented? This is the GRAND question.
Oh yes. I have plans. I also have limited time. Limited funds.
That’s the problem. Maturity – damn you! Can I ignore you?
Before I became a full-time member of the workforce I had hoped to use that time to see and do a few things. I haven’t.
Just a few small excursions in and around California, see and do things I can check off that bucket list.
Now I have a week. A WEEK! so much to do, so little time!
Check out this map and tell me I am nuts (please don’t). Tell me I am crazy (please don’t).
I have done worse with less time and less money.
Here is the deal:
Begin at the very beginning Berkeley. Rent a car.
Cost: $215 for 7 days.
Drive to Tahoe.
Total drive time: 3 hours 4 minutes.
Costs: Use season pass at Squaw and Alpine (free skiing). Lodging: $22/night
Take Intermediate adult lesson: Cost $69
Drive to Mammoth Mountain (Destination is technically Bishop, then a 45 minute drive or shuttle to Mammoth Mountain).
Total drive time: 3 hours 15 minutes
This is THE holy land of California skiing!
Costs: Take advantage of Liftopia’s $199 3-day lift ticket deal.
Lodging: $79 for two nights
NEXT UP: Six-flags Magic Mountain, Los Angeles.
Total drive time: 4 hours 41 minutes
Entrance fee Cost: $39.
Lodging. TBD – may drive right on through!
Total estimated cost: for 5 days of skiing, car rental lodging, food, gas and other unforeseeable costs: $650-$700.
My last unemployment check.
The is the last trip I would be able to take for three months. I cannot use my allotted three weeks vacation until I have surpassed, made it through, survived three months on the job.
This would be the first vacation in almost a year.
One week, three checks off the list. A “bid adieu to unemployment”, road trip style.
So…. who’s with me!
(Who thinks I am a 30-year-old trapped in a 19-year-olds body? – yes I’m hoping no one votes for this!).
~ the audacious amateur blogger
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Nice to read that you have a plan and what sounds like a shit ton of fun before having to settle in for three months. I would do the same. Take lots of pictures.
Your adventure sounds exhausting just reading it and my frugal sensibilities just had a heart attack trading the money involved!
This must be a girl thing, or I’m just out of touch and a snarky introverted curmudgeon. I’ll never understand the whole see the world and do X amount of things before you die thing. If I want to see the world, I’ll subscribe to national geographic
I’m all about savoring the tiny things, like sleeping in!
Zzzzzzzzzzz
I’ve been sleeping in four 8 months! It’s time for ACTION!!
Dunno if I’ll do it. Like i said that maturity thingy snuck up on me.
I HAVE to see it all before I die, otherwise what’s the point of living?
Sad side note. This guy, I met him twice. Nice, sweetheart, meathead who went to Yale. He was good friends w my BFF. We’re on the phone janey and I and suddenly she freaks, facebook, condolences…
Turns out this super jock who did a triathlon just yah know for kicks the morning of a bday party of his I attended – total family affair so cute. Benched pressed … Hundreds of pounds. Went to YALE. Dies. 29. Heart attack due to “accidental overdose of medications” ..
Always wanting more more more. Be bigger be faster be smarter. And he was so down to earth which was weird. What was it all for.
You know what it was for? To break his mothers heart.
I’d rather go skiing and ride rollercoasters. 4 hour drives… Please I was on a 36 hr bus up the Chilean desert, only chick w these mine workers… Ugh
while I just wrote ALL about how much I hate horoscopes.. I like the one I got today. it reads:
“Something special is happening right now! Mars just moved into Pisces and it’s making a rare and welcome conjunction with Neptune, also in Pisces. This type of planetary connection doesn’t happen very often, and that’s why everyone wants to know what it means to them. Let me explain…
If Mars represents “Action” and Pisces represents “Dreams,” then it would be easy to assume Mars + Pisces = “Start Dreaming.” Nope! At least not today. Why? Because this added conjunction with Neptune in Pisces is giving us superhero strength to actually stop dreaming and start DOING! This cosmic turn of events is going to make it easier to tap into our personal power”
LET DOOOO IT
Have fun in Mammoth. It’s one of my very favorite places. If you haven’t already made reservations in Bishop you might want to see about finding a place in Mammoth Lakes to stay instead… Bishop isn’t too far away, but it’s a good 40+ minute drive from there up to the slopes which can be a long drive at the end of a day shredding it up. Once you are in town you can take the free shuttles anywhere you need to go.
awesome advice! so, you think $199 is a good deal for 3 days? worth it?
$200 for 3 days on the slopes at Mammoth? This year? With all the snow they’ve gotten? Yes!!! Very good deal! I think the normal tickets are going for $97/day so you are almost getting a free day with that deal.
dammit! I hate this. Not doing it feels like a waste, doing it would be .. money and time I don’t have. Time I wont have though later, money… yea, more than now at least! > Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 19:46:13 +0000 > To: amateurblogger@live.com >
I say go for it! You can always make more money – and while you may not feel like you have time, you should take advantage of these opportunties when you get them… these are the experiences you will always remember.