Ride Share? Tent Share? Hotel Share? Comment here.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

As I recently updated the wiki to say:
"This wiki is now deprecated. Fuck you, spamming scum.

There will be a livejournal (.com) entry in the Baitcon community to cover people asking for or offering rides. Anonymous posting, or OpenID posting will be supported, and the entry will be deleted at the end of every year."

This is that entry.

Please comment here if you need, or can offer a ride, a tent (or space in one), or a space in a hotel/bnb room.

We'll try to keep this in line, should spammers notice in the next month, and delete the whole thing at the end.

Anonymous commenting is available for folks who don't have LJ accounts, as is OpenID-based auth.

Comments

[dragonsea]

So we've met the minimum?

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Speaking of that 1) I need to register 2) why oh why are there so many DC things I'll be sad to miss that weekend 3) are you going up? I would enjoy carpooling again and 4) uh what time do you leave work?

[dragonsea]

1. Register!
2. That always happens.
3. I'm leaving Friday returning Monday and would love to carpool with you
4. I just sent you a text

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Close enough. :)

[elusiveat.livejournal.com]

Squirrelitude, I, and our 16-month-old daughter will need transportation to the Abode. Probably the sanest thing for all parties involved would be if somebody could pick us up at the Pittsfield Amtrak station and drop us off there after the event. Is there any talk of a shuttle system for this type of situation? Is anybody willing to step up to volunteer to come get us? I'd be happy to reciprocate in some combination of gas money on the day of, and dinner, cookies, or brownies after we're back in Boston...

(If someone was super enthusiastic about driving us all the way from Boston, we'd consider that as well...)

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Have you registered?

Also, I suspect that if you tell us what train you're coming in on, we can find someone to go to Pittsfield to get you, if nothing else's arranged in advance.

[nurrynur.livejournal.com]

meeeee! I would love to help if I can. I can probably do the train station pickup/drop off if the schedule works out but I haven't yet decided on my travel dates/times. If that doesn't work out, I may instead be able to offer to transport your tents/equipment/etc so you're not having to shlep as much on the train?

The Abode does offersshuttle service for some $. Coincidentally there's weeklong NVC workshop happening down the mountain, that starts the same day as Baitcon... so they may even have other people showing up at Pittsfield Amtrak. ( http://www.theabode.org/shuttles/ )

[elusiveat.livejournal.com]

Oh yay! It'd be lovely if you could help us out! Let's try to communicate over email. I think Squirrelitude has your address, so I'll drop you a line right now.

[chhotii.livejournal.com]

Here's some data about the option of taking the train from Boston to Pittsfield:

The location of the Pittsfield Amtrack station is 1 Columbus Ave, Pittsfield, MA 01201, and the address of the Abode is 5 Abode Rd, New Lebanon, NY 12125. According to Google Maps, the driving distance between these points is just over 10 miles, or about 20 minutes. The Lake Shore Limited leaves Boston South Station at 12:50 pm and arrives at 4:39 pm. The train back leaves Pittsfield at at 4:09 pm and gets back to Boston at 8:01 pm. This is a bit more challenging. Baitcon ends at 2 pm on Monday. Leaving at 2 pm would require cooling our heels in the Pittsfield train station for a couple of hours, not thrilling. (However, I can help with tear-down and thereby earn the favor of staying a little later than 2 on Monday.) The round-trip cost for 1 adult and 1 child is at this point $60. (It could be a little less BUT they seem to limit the availability of "Saver" tickets.)

So, can someone pick up 2 passengers in Pittsfield on Friday evening? Can someone drop off 2 passengers in Pittsfield on Monday evening?