[IC][BBS] Comfortably Numb?

[robkelk]

At any rate, keep us posted, Brent.  We'll also try and keep you ahead of any planned socials.  We're already toying with the idea of a Halloween Social here at my complex because it's got a pool as a courtyard big enough to pull it off.  That, and it's pretty comfortable outside this time of year in San Antonio.  I know Rob's girls will welcome a chance to wear shorts and T-shirts and skirts without thermal leggings.

Here's a thought: weekend getaways. I suspect my boarders would appreciate taking a gondola ride, and your boarders might like skating on the Rideau Canal once winter rolls around. And I know I'd like to visit the Alamo. Although, with Makoto's (completely justified) distrust of airplanes, we may need to impose upon Washuu-chan to open teleport gateways for us.

Maybe not quite as often, but during regular school holidays for sure.  While we are manufacturing all the needed identification and legal paper trails, it would behoove us to actually use these in a manner that does not raise any eyebrows.  All we'd need is for one well-meaning police officer to ask them for their ID's, and well...  Let's just say that even Canada requires that US Citizens visiting have valid passports.  Dual citizenship would simplify things, but I don't recall us having set that up, and trying to change it now is risky business.

Simply put, I'd like to save Washu-chan's portal technology to emergencies and for other business we cross borders through normal means using the (ill-gotten) legal means we have access to now.

That saaaiiiiid.....

Gimme a few weeks.  There's plenty of websites out there that sell busses.  I just took a quick look and I think we might be able to score one or two motorcoach conversions (that is, motor coaches that have been converted into RVs) that may be in our price range.  They'll need work, but that's never been something to stop me in the past.

We've already started the process to get an 11-seater short bus, and I already have a license to drive one of those.

The thing is, our boarders just don't understand the distances between cities in North America. I got complaints about a nice, short, five-hour, 500km trip (that's 300 miles IIRC). The drive from Ottawa to San Antonio is, what, 30 hours? Longer if we stop to sightsee in Toronto, Chicago, Memphis, Dallas, and Austin. And we will need to stop - I'm the only licensed driver in the building. That isn't a weekend trip; that's a summer vacation trip.

And it wouldn't be fair to leave Makoto out of the fun and fly from Ottawa to San Antonio.