Date!

[timill]

I have a date from USCIS for my naturalization interview! Wednesday April 25th, in Memphis TN.

Now to work out how to get there - flights seem remarkably expensive (about $1000) compared to Nashville and Knoxville (about $300-400).

Comments

[lauriemann.livejournal.com]

Congratulations and good luck in finding a cheaper way to get there.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't know you were planning on getting US citizenship. Good luck with the interview and sorting out the transportation.

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

If you're willing to do some funky routing and leave from Love Field, you can do it for a lot less through SeaPort Airlines (http://www.seaportair.com) (which I'd never heard of before!)

[timill]

That's certainly weird enough to consider.. ;-)

Thanks

[jane-dennis.livejournal.com]

You can drive Dallas-Memphis in 7 hrs or less. If you want to break the trip, like leave after work in Dallas, there used to be a really good restaurant in Texarkana (Park Place).

[jane-dennis.livejournal.com]

If you're gonna be a 'Murcun, you must consider driving as your first choice at all times. But srsly, in this case, there probably isn't much more time involved if you consider advance time at airport, security, changing planes, picking up rental car, etc. Might save 1-2 hrs, if all flights are on time. Otoh, it's a pretty very boring drive.

There's also a great Cajun restaurant in Little Rock, on the river, which I'll google the name of for you if you decide to drive.

(Sigh, sorry for comment weirdness. Why one comment is editable and another isn't escapes me at the moment.)

[history-monk.livejournal.com]

Best of luck with it. I found a "could you pass a US citizenship interview?" questionnaire on the Christian Science Monitor website recently and got 95%, leaving me thinking "the real one can't be this easy."

[timill]

Try this one. In the real thing, it's not multiple choice, alas.

[history-monk.livejournal.com]

It seems to be the same set of question, in the same phrasing. Multiple choice does make it a load easier, though.

[timill]

Indeed, driving is currently my preferred option. The main problem is that it's a day up to Memphis, a day there, and a day back again. Though I can cut the return day out if I can get out of Memphis early enough.

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Best wishes.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

If one doesn't mind flying and then driving a rental car, I remember it taking about 3 hours to drive Memphis to Nashville. It's a pretty boring route, but what the hey.

Memphis being almost in Alabama, and almost in Arkansas, there may be closer options. But it does seem odd, Memphis being a Delta hub, for flights there to be so expensive.

[timill]

I considered it and rejected it because, Nashville to Memphis being some 210 miles, it doesn't really save any time but adds to the cost.

[timill]

But I could do Little Rock for $140 r/t, leaving only 150 miles to drive each way. Probably not worth it, still.

[jcbemis.livejournal.com]

yay for there being a date finally! and good luck.