options

I could take a bus to Fredericton and fly Air Canada to Toronto, then somehow get from Toronto to Hamilton. OR I could take a bus to Moncton and fly WestJet to Hamilton. Either one of these options is going to cost me around 500 dollars.

I could take a bus to Campbellton and then take the VIA to Aldershot. The train ride is around 20 hours geeeeeeeeeeeez! and tickets are around 300 dollars cripes! I could take a Greyhound (bus not dog) all the way from Edmundston to Hamilton. Imagine being on a bus (or dog) for an entire day! An entire precious vacation day. I only get 15 of them but I am thankful that I get even that. Generally I would have to work for six months before receving any vacation.

I could rent a car but that would cost me over 250 dollars plus whatever extra I would have to pay for the kilometers. All onethousandonehundredandfiftytwo of them. It's an 11 hour drive to Hamilton but I think I could do it in 10. I could drive the Maroon Mobile/Battlestar Galactica machine. If it can drive to Halifax and back, surely it could make it to Hamilton, no?

Any option I chose will mean two entire day's worth of traveling (there and back). It pains me to give up vacation days for traveling. Because I only get 15 days of vacation I have (for now) decided that I am going to sulk it through the summer without seeing my family and then take some extra home time over Christmas. Sighhhh...