And what an adventure it was…
After leaving the house for the airport at 9:45am, fifteen minutes late, I made it about ten minutes into my 30 minute commute when the traffic stopped. And, I mean s-t-o-p-p-e-d. So I sat, slowly crawling along. It took me an hour to drive from my home to the Spaghetti Bowl, a drive that usually takes fifteen minutes. I arrived at the airport at departure time for my flight to Chicago. Fortunately it was delayed thirty minutes…but, I couldn’t get on because it was weight-restricted. Weight-restrictions are imposed when fuel quantity reaches a certain level and the temperatures are high. The further the plane has to travel, the more fuel it needs. The hotter it gets, the longer it takes a plane to take off. With the added weight and high temps, weight-restrictions become nasty problems. Then I waited for the next flight only to find out it was delayed about three hours due to weather in Chicago.
At this point I decided to wait and take the red-eye from San Jose to Boston. I would be leaving Las Vegas at 7:10pm for San Jose. While sitting in the boarding lounge, they made an announcement that our inbound aircraft had an emergency and the passengers evacuated on the tarmac in Las Vegas. Ok, so now I can’t make my connection in San Jose. I am writing this blog on my laptop while in-flight from Las Vegas to Chicago. I will be arriving in Chicago about 1:30am central time and then will catch an 8am flight to Boston, arriving about 11am. I am on call tomorrow and not currently scheduled to fly anywhere. Let’s hope it stays that way. And, if they fly me, hopefully it will be something that signs-in after 11am. I don’t think I will have to worry about it though.
I am sure I will update the blog as soon as possible to let you know the outcome. I suspect that all will go well from here, but I am well aware anything can happen, especially after the day I’ve had. I failed to mention before after I decided to leave the airport and go home, to catch the flight later to San Jose, I was having nothing but problems at home. I dropped everything I could drop, including dumping pasta in the sink while trying to strain it and then I dumped a whole bowl of pasta and sauce on the counter. Ugh! This day was just not meant to be. My friend Stacee in San Jose is convinced it is a sign I should not have transferred to Boston. Of course, she would think that since she didn’t want me to go anyway.
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I am now in Chicago, where the local time is 2:40am. I can now publish what I had written on the airplane with the update of my progress. I guess the good new is I am no longer in Vegas, after trying nearly all day to get out of there. Everything seems to be on track for my flight to Boston, but I certainly won't hold my breath. There is still weather here in Chicago, but nothing like what it was before. The thunderstorms have stopped and it's misting and cloudy at the moment. Hopefully that won't cause the problems today that it caused yesterday...or I may be here a while.
After leaving the house for the airport at 9:45am, fifteen minutes late, I made it about ten minutes into my 30 minute commute when the traffic stopped. And, I mean s-t-o-p-p-e-d. So I sat, slowly crawling along. It took me an hour to drive from my home to the Spaghetti Bowl, a drive that usually takes fifteen minutes. I arrived at the airport at departure time for my flight to Chicago. Fortunately it was delayed thirty minutes…but, I couldn’t get on because it was weight-restricted. Weight-restrictions are imposed when fuel quantity reaches a certain level and the temperatures are high. The further the plane has to travel, the more fuel it needs. The hotter it gets, the longer it takes a plane to take off. With the added weight and high temps, weight-restrictions become nasty problems. Then I waited for the next flight only to find out it was delayed about three hours due to weather in Chicago.
At this point I decided to wait and take the red-eye from San Jose to Boston. I would be leaving Las Vegas at 7:10pm for San Jose. While sitting in the boarding lounge, they made an announcement that our inbound aircraft had an emergency and the passengers evacuated on the tarmac in Las Vegas. Ok, so now I can’t make my connection in San Jose. I am writing this blog on my laptop while in-flight from Las Vegas to Chicago. I will be arriving in Chicago about 1:30am central time and then will catch an 8am flight to Boston, arriving about 11am. I am on call tomorrow and not currently scheduled to fly anywhere. Let’s hope it stays that way. And, if they fly me, hopefully it will be something that signs-in after 11am. I don’t think I will have to worry about it though.
I am sure I will update the blog as soon as possible to let you know the outcome. I suspect that all will go well from here, but I am well aware anything can happen, especially after the day I’ve had. I failed to mention before after I decided to leave the airport and go home, to catch the flight later to San Jose, I was having nothing but problems at home. I dropped everything I could drop, including dumping pasta in the sink while trying to strain it and then I dumped a whole bowl of pasta and sauce on the counter. Ugh! This day was just not meant to be. My friend Stacee in San Jose is convinced it is a sign I should not have transferred to Boston. Of course, she would think that since she didn’t want me to go anyway.
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I am now in Chicago, where the local time is 2:40am. I can now publish what I had written on the airplane with the update of my progress. I guess the good new is I am no longer in Vegas, after trying nearly all day to get out of there. Everything seems to be on track for my flight to Boston, but I certainly won't hold my breath. There is still weather here in Chicago, but nothing like what it was before. The thunderstorms have stopped and it's misting and cloudy at the moment. Hopefully that won't cause the problems today that it caused yesterday...or I may be here a while.
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