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Friday, July 01, 2005, at 05:33AM

By Eric Richardson

Today Kathy and I fly to Denver for my cousin Jeremy's wedding. We fly out of Ontario Airport, though, since it turned out to be significantly cheaper to get a direct flight from there than it was to get one from LAX. You wouldn't think that would be too big of a deal -- Ontario's only a few miles further from Downtown than LAX is, and LAX traffic can be a pain.

Complicating matters, though, is the fact that we're trying to get to the airport without a car. I don't have one, and Kathy's sister needs Kathy's to get to the summer school class she's taking at Pasadena City College. Metrolink runs tantilizingly close to the airport, but the connections to bridge the last few miles are virtually non-existent. The cleanest option I found was to take Metrolink to Fontana -- well past the airport -- and then take a 40 minute bus ride on Omnitrans line 61.

I didn't want to make the trip take that close to two hours, though, so right now the plan is to take Metrolink's San Bernadino line to the Upland station and then take a taxi. I just called an Upland cab company, and in theory there should be a cab waiting for us when we arrive. The train leaves Union Station at 11:20am, and is scheduled to put us into Upland at 12:17pm, which should give us lots of cushion for a 2:25pm flight.

And now with that all (hopefully) taken care of, I need to go pack my suit into a hang-up bag. Friday to Sunday trip, so we'll be going light.