The Next American Mega Trip… The Flights Are Booked

Here we go again. Yes there’s PodcastConUK this weekend in London, and the All About Symbian Pub Meet and Smartphone Show in October, but I’m working on the next ‘mega-trip’ for the first half of November. This will be the third one this year (previously March and June saw trips), and they’re typical characterised by a few things.

The first is a big conference – this time it’s the The Portable Media Expo in Ontario, California. The second is the flight prices – generally if you stay more than a week, and over at least one weekend, the flights are a lot cheaper. In this case about £350 including tax with American Airlines. A quick word on American. I read horror stories everywhere about them, but really I’ve never had cause to really complain, even when they cancelled a flight on me over Memorial Weekend in the USA and rerouted me to Heathrow over a few cross country flights before catching a 777 at Chicago.

So I tend to stay the week, and while accomodation and living costs mean it costs about the same as the ‘there and back’ flight I get time to recover from jet-lag, and visit lots of people and companies that I normally only talk to on IRC or by email.

Here’s the public diary so far, if you’d like to meet up with me when I’m over drop me a mail to ewanspence at gmail dot com and lets sort something out. I’m definitly in San Jose/San Fransico on Tuesday 8th, and will be in Los Angeles / Santa Ana on the night of Thursday 10th, but the period there is a bit flexible. Any suggestions?

West Coast USA “Mega-Trip.” 3rd Nov to 13th Nov.

Events already confirmed…

Spending the weekend in Seattle.
November 4th-November 7th, Washington.

Mobile Monday, California.
Nov 7th-10th, Bay Area, California.

Spending the evening in Santa Clara / Los Angeles.
November 10, Santa Clara and Los Angeles, California.

The Portable Media Expo.
November 11-12, Ontario, California.