Update on the unlucky rock slide story: Apparently it's going to be closed for five days, meaning we have to leave much earlier in order to take an alternative route to Vancouver.

I can't exactly say I am looking forward to spending 7 instead of 3 hours in the bus :( At least I am not flying back straight to Pittsburgh on Friday, so at least it won't be followed by another 8 hours or so of traveling.

Update: My bus was rescheduled to 3 am in the morning. Looks like I'm not going to go to bed that night and just sleep on the bus.

Update 2: Thank heaven somebody filed a bug on this: Can't get out of Whistler -- can't be long until this gets fixed!

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Oops, a rock slide trapped us in Whistler: "Rock slide closes Vancouver to Whistler route" (cbc.ca)

Luckily, there's still time until Friday to clean it up. Had it happened on departure day, there'd be over 400 flights to reschedule. Good times.

Update: The story of Mozilla being trapped seems to get a little press feedback: On ZDNET, for example, and the local press wants to cover our experience as well.

Update 2: The highway is to reopen today (Saturday) night, they say.

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