Should I go to World Fantasy Con?

[ckd]

(Worldcon report coming at some point.)

It looks like airfare is pretty cheap at the moment, though transcontinental travel is still going to be a giant time suck. There aren't any BOS-SJC nonstops (AA killed their old "nerd bird" a few years ago, and JetBlue chopped theirs during the fuel price jump last year), so it's a hub connection somewhere (IAH, probably, since CO has the cheap fare right now) and end-to-end gate-to-gate times run in the 8-9 hour range.

Pluses/minuses:
+ Another con to fill in the gap between Worldcon and Arisia
+ BOS-SJC fare reasonably cheap right now
+ Can hook a SEA stop in there to see family; a BOS-SJC-SEA-BOS triangle trip only adds about $100-150 to the fare if I stay through Sunday
+ "Use it or lose it" vacation policy; WFC + the extra day at each end would get me closer, and doing the Seattle trip would get me under the threshold for sure even if I don't take any other time off
- Not sure how many folks I know will be there
- Two extra hotel nights pretty much required due to flight times (either in SJC or near SEA)
- Two long travel days

Thoughts?

Comments

[ron_newman]

Could you do Boston-SFO instead and take the train down to San José? It looks to me like the hotel is a reasonable walk from the Caltrain station.

[ckd]

It's a thought, though I'm not sure how intermodal the SFO/Caltrain connection is since I've never used it. (I've used the BART extension to get into the city, but I've never headed south from SFO by land.)

[ron_newman]

I think you take BART one stop from the airport to the Millbrae Caltrain station, then Caltrain south to San Jose.