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Fear and loathing in northern New England

It seems likely that my brother and I will be barnstorming up to Montreal for one day of the FINA World Championships. (I’ve been to two World Championships in Athletics, the IAAF’s track equivalent, but never a swim meet I couldn’t be competing in myself.)

Anyway, since I no longer have vacation days, the roughly 36-hour tentative plan goes like this:

  • Leave work at earliest reasonable hour.
  • Meet in Hanover, NH (or in the neighborhood) and park one car.
  • Drive until Montreal, probably arriving at some single-digit morning hour. Sleep until…
  • Morning sessions. Rounds of a few events. I bet the swimming 1500m is nothing like the running 1500m.
  • Explore what parts of the city we can reach before…
  • Evening session. Local-boy-makes-good Ian Crocker faces off against Ian Thorpe in some painful sprint event. I’d bring a Maine flag, but nobody could tell it from the flags of a few dozen other states.
  • Leave Montreal, probably sometime in the area of 9 PM.
  • Leave Hanover for home, arriving at some absurd single-digit morning hour.
  • Sleep all day Sunday.

I’m thinking I may need some of these. Or at least massive quantities of tea.

Posted by pjm on July 8, 2005 4:53 PM |

Comments

If you let me know where you’ll be, I can probably suggest more easily explorable areas. (Most specifically, where and when you’ll be, or what kinds of places you want to see.)

Hanover is not too far, though if you’re driving at night, you might want to do the 89 and not the 91. Though is there some specific reason you’re not just staying on Sat night and leaving at a respectable time on Sun?

Posted by: wolfa | July 9, 2005 7:26 PM

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