How to Buy a Plane Ticket to DC

Travel advice from yours truly in twenty easy steps:

1. Go to kayak.com and type in your airports: SFO to WDC; type in your dates: May 27-May 31; hit submit.
2. Drop jaw.
3. Go back to Step One and type in other dates.
4. Drop jaw.
5. Accept the price and try to find a nonstop that gets in at a reasonable hour.
6. Try to find a one-stop that gets in at a reasonable hour.
7. Go back to Step One and type in new airports: SFO to LON.
8. Laugh and clap.
9. Weigh the pros and cons of dragging boyfriend to five year college reunion versus European vacation.
10. Go back to Step One and type in original airports: SFO to WDC.
11. Seriously consider staying in a hostel in DC. Come to senses and look at bank account again.
12. Sleep on it.
13. Log in to farecompare and type in your airports: SFO to FRA.
14. Laugh and clap.
15. Check exchange rate and stop being happy.
16. Get a big fat paycheck for editing a manuscript and resume happiness.
17. Go back to Step One and type in new airports: SFO to ROM.
18. Decide being in Rome on a lark when the reunion rolls around would be the perfect homage to a Georgetown education.
19. Buy a ticket to Rome for two weeks.
20. Hope college friends will take a raincheck.