{"id":797,"date":"2009-05-28T21:30:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T04:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/?p=797"},"modified":"2009-05-28T21:30:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T04:30:43","slug":"making-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2009\/05\/making-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is summer again and time to plan for Worldcon. This year it is in Montreal – Anticipation<\/a>. I was in Montreal a few years ago and remember that there was an international fireworks competition over the summer, so I googled online and found the schedule<\/a>. A more current schedule is here<\/a>. They have a different country every Saturday. The Fireworks are at the old Expo Park site and you can get on a bridge and be eye level with them going off in front of you. It was impressive. The Con is August 6-10, and by the Schedule I see that the US is competing on the August 1st and South Africa is on August 8th.<\/p>\n

So, I have planned a convoluted way to get to Montreal in time to see the US compete. I am flying into Albany Thursday evening, spend the night there and then take the train from Albany to Montrea<\/a>l – through the Adirondacks – and arrive in Montreal Friday Evening. And then return to Albany by train after the convention and fly back home the next day.\u00a0 I just hope there are no hidden pitfalls in Albany to worry about.<\/p>\n

Should have a few days to sightsee around Montreal before the fun begins. Now, is it worthwhile to rent a car and travel into the countryside for a day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is summer again and time to plan for Worldcon. This year it is in Montreal – Anticipation. I was in Montreal a few years ago and remember that there was an international fireworks competition over the summer, so I googled online and found the schedule. A more current schedule is here. They have a … Continue reading Making Plans<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-cR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}