Jeez, I am falling victim to two of my weaknesses (1) love of travel and (2) a bargain! I have posted here recently about being able to get dirt-cheap airfares. In my case, I've been using Spirit Air (out of Ft. Lauderdale). I've already booked two cheap trips for later in 2007, and some of them even got cheaper (only slightly: $8 or $12 each way sometimes down to $0.01). Of course, most of the true cost of the flight is taxes and such, but still way cheap. Here's my current "problem". You inputs please!
Spirit (spiritair.com) has periodic specials, such as the following, if I were to book by Wed. 3/7:
I can fly from FLL to Costa Rica (San Juan) on 8/21 - 8/28 (selected dates) and return on 09/18 (only available date), for $59.94 r/t, total cost.
Never having been there, I'd like to see CR, even in what I'm sure is the off season. Maybe hot & sticky, but Florida is ditto in summer.
Problem: I'm already booked to go to Puerto Rico just a few days later. No law says I can't, but I'd have only about 3 days layover in Ft. Lauderdale. I could, in theory, take a bus back home, for a day or two, but it wouldn't be much of a rest, and will cost about an extra $84 if I do so.
Another consideration is that my girlfriend would be angry at me. To me, this is a lesser concern because our relationship is pretty much burnt out anyway, and she's already pissed that I'm going to be gone for nearly a month during hurricane season.
From a traveling viewpoint, if I do both the Costa Rica and the Puerto Rico trips, I would be gone for almost two months. I have traveled that long before, but not in over ten years. Since I'm obviously a self-centered SOB who could give a #&$ about what his girlfriend thinks, my main concern here would be that I'll be trying to do too much traveling in a concentrated period.
My gut says to go for it...since I don't really care what my girlfriend thinks, and the incremental cost is only $60, should I book it? Comments, please!
Spirit (spiritair.com) has periodic specials, such as the following, if I were to book by Wed. 3/7:
I can fly from FLL to Costa Rica (San Juan) on 8/21 - 8/28 (selected dates) and return on 09/18 (only available date), for $59.94 r/t, total cost.
Never having been there, I'd like to see CR, even in what I'm sure is the off season. Maybe hot & sticky, but Florida is ditto in summer.
Problem: I'm already booked to go to Puerto Rico just a few days later. No law says I can't, but I'd have only about 3 days layover in Ft. Lauderdale. I could, in theory, take a bus back home, for a day or two, but it wouldn't be much of a rest, and will cost about an extra $84 if I do so.
Another consideration is that my girlfriend would be angry at me. To me, this is a lesser concern because our relationship is pretty much burnt out anyway, and she's already pissed that I'm going to be gone for nearly a month during hurricane season.
From a traveling viewpoint, if I do both the Costa Rica and the Puerto Rico trips, I would be gone for almost two months. I have traveled that long before, but not in over ten years. Since I'm obviously a self-centered SOB who could give a #&$ about what his girlfriend thinks, my main concern here would be that I'll be trying to do too much traveling in a concentrated period.
My gut says to go for it...since I don't really care what my girlfriend thinks, and the incremental cost is only $60, should I book it? Comments, please!
) our relationship can't really get any worse, I am going to enjoy myself as much as I reasonably can..."reasonable" depends on your definition I guess. If she's going to be unhappy no matter what I do (which, I think, isn't far from the truth), then I am going to plan my self-centered little life to maximize that happiness. I can't make her happy, and I think the world is a better place with one unhappy person in it, instead of two.
