Couldn't you have hired a car
and driven to San Francisco from LA in 10 hours?
(berk, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 17:17, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Yep
Except I wasn't carrying my driving licence.

Long story, I'd missed a flight to San Fran and I was due to present at a conference the next day. Virgin only had one flight a day to SF so they put me on the next flight to LAX for nowt (which was nice of them) but, understandably, told me I was on my own after that.

There is, on average, one flight every 10 mins from LAX to SFO. However, there is no way of checking all the airlines simultaneously (this was 1998) so I guessed at United and it was 10 hours before they could get me on a plane.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 17:20, Reply)

But did you manage to present at the conference?

(berk, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 17:21, Reply)

Yeah, but I'd been up for about 40 hours.
It probably wasn't my finest hour. Then again, the audience were probably asleep too.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 17:25, Reply)