BlogHer Itinerary

Look, if you are bored by all of this Chicago and BlogHer talk, you might want to just turn around and leave.

Wait! I was just kidding. I promise over the coming days to write posts that aren’t just about the conference, even if it is the thing I am most looking forward to for the remainder of the summer.

Without further ado, I give you the BlogHer 2007 Assertagirl Itinerary. (Imagine I said that in a loud, echo-y voice.)

Wednesday, July 25:

Leave the house at the ungodly hour of 6:00 am in order to miss the majority of GTA rush hour traffic through Durham Region and down the Don Valley Parkway. Aim to be at Gayla‘s by about 7:00 am.

If there wasn’t enough time at home, find some sort of espresso-based coffee beverage so that I can, you know, be AWAKE when we cross the border.

I haven’t planned our route 100% yet, so I’m not sure if we’ll be crossing the border at Niagara Falls, or in Sarnia. Not sure, then, where we’ll be stopping along the way. Will have this figured out a bit better by Wednesday. Flint interests us, as does Detroit. In daylight.

Aim to arrive in Chicago by 6 or 7 pm. It’s a nine-hour drive. Flash honk at HerBadMother and the Eco-Trippin’ crew on the highway.

Thursday, July 27:

Do a bit of touring around Chicago. Again, we are uncertain what exactly we will be seeing, maybe some sort of botanical garden. Coffee will again be an important feature of the day. Connect with Renee at some point in the day (for lunch, maybe?).

Gayla and Renee have Important Panelist Meetings to attend around 5, so I’ll be joining some other ladies for dinner at a restaurant called P.J. Clarke’s. Oh look, here’s their menu. Meeting up in the lobby of the W Hotel to walk over as a herd of women with really cool shoes.

After dinner the meet-up moves to the top of the W Hotel. Must try not to get too drunk so Gayla isn’t disgusted by me and also so I am not too hung over the morning the conference actually begins, although judging from some of the Flickr streams I’ve seen, this is something of a grand tradition.

Friday, July 27:

Day One of the actual conference! Breakfast is at 8:30. I will be following the Art of Life track, for the most part, including Gayla and Renee’s panel, “Blogging is More Than Words”.

There is a reception and cocktail party from 6-8 that night. Uncertain about what happens after 8, but I do have a sneaking suspicion it will involve alcohol. Just a guess, though. I am not a lush. (Remember calling your girlfriends a lush? So mid-nineties.)

Saturday, July 28:

Day Two of the conference.

Another cocktail party from 6-9 on Navy Pier, hosted this time by the people at Dove who sent me the “Sleeveless Ready” kit I posted about awhile back.

Plans after 9 are up in the air. Will go with the flow.

Sunday, July 29:

Day to drive home. Not super-early, because I don’t care if it’s midnight when I’m pulling back into our driveway here in Bowmanville.

I have a few things to do before leaving. My list:

• Transfer my photos from the laptop to an external drive. I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time to clear up some space.
• I’m getting my hair cut and coloured on Tuesday morning because it’s looking all scraggly and my current colour is growing out and OH MY GOD I HAVE THREE GREYS IN FRONT.
• Pack. I will try to travel light, but it’s not like my luggage will be weighed or anything. The Jettawagon holds a lot of crap and there will only be two of us in the car. Must not forget to bring: camera, camera battery charger, firewire for camera, Chicago travel guide, birth control pills (for some reason I forget these when I travel), Advil.

I’m going to miss Graham…this sounds silly, I know, but we haven’t spent this much time apart since we met. I think it’ll be good for us, though. Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and all of that crap.

What errands, etc. do you have to do before leaving?

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