San Diego Scorecard
And now it’s time for everyone’s favorite feature here at BTN, now illustrated for your enjoyment… the latest travel scorecard! Follow along at my San Diego Flickr photoset; not all are illustrated, but enough to make it exciting.
So, without further ado…
Friday
- Starbucks/home/Dulles 1, work 0
- Metrobus 5A 1, published schedule 0
- O’Hare weather 1, initial plans 0
- AAdvantage Gold status 1, oversold plane 0 (woohoo!)
- New DFW Skylink several million, old TrAAin -27
- DFW delays 1, re-scheduled early arrival time 0
Saturday
Travel plans: Alamogordo 4 weeks, Matt 0- Squirrel 1, U.S. Marine Corps 1
- Fry’s eleventy billion, all other electronics stores 2
- Fry’s $68, Josh’s wallet 0
- 5/805 split 1, highway standards 0
- Lightning 1, Mormon temple 1
- Lane Stadium 66,000, Bub’s Dive Bar and Grill 120
- Easily walkable halftime excursions: Lane concourses -20, Pacific Beach 247 million
- Hokie fans 115, Ohio fans 3, wayward Hoos 2
- Virginia Tech 45, Ohio 0
Water taxi from Coronado $5/head, parking at Petco $20+- Quality: Petco extreme, RFK not so much
- Nats 5, Padres 0 (bottom 9th inning, 2 out)
- Padres 8, Nats 5 (final/12)
- Frank Robinson 1, competent managing 0
- Smart security guy 1, ruckus from drunk Padres fans 0
- Violent, psychotic rage 7, Yudachat 0
Sunday
Angry game writeups in Washington papers 2, Frank Robinson 0- Jazz-based contemporary worship bands 1, country-based 0
- Methodist service 1:00, Catholic Mass 1:15+ (heh)
- SAN Starbucks $4.20, Josh 0 (where’s the mint in my MINT Chocolate Chip?)
- A watchable movie on DFW-IAD 1, Josh’s expectations 0
- Moon buggies 2, real gate 0
- Taxi ride home $17, minutes saved over driving 15
- Total home-IAD round trip cost $21, parking fees I would have spent $27 (win!)
- Needed Denver-mint quarters I got 5, ones I still need ~20