I decided to go to my grandmother’s house for the weekend and to see my buddy Mitch up at law school this weekend. I didn’t know until a couple of weeks ago if our project would be going on or not so I had to buy the ticket later than I thought. I ended up getting a ticket that wouldn’t get me into Roanoke until after midnight. Unfortunately I found out later that the rental place closes at midnight and I needed to get in earlier. Out went the call to my travel folks for the second week in a row. They really are a top notch crew. They got me on a flight that would get in at 9:30. This would work out a lot better.
When I got to the airport in Dayton the connecting flight had unfortunately been canceled do to weather. Apparently parts of the country were in white-out conditions (did you see the plane slide off the runway in Chicago). So when I got to the counter the clerk wanted to get me back onto the flight that got in after midnight. I told him that wouldn’t work because of the rental arrangements and he got me onto a flight through Dulles on another airline. FYI so far Delta had treated me better than anyone else since I started traveling.
I think all of the changes to my travel arrangements triggered something in the computers because I got flagged for an extra special security check. I remember LJ getting the same treatment back when we went to Vegas. Now of days they got it down to a routine procedure. My boarding pass was put into an orange envelope and I was ushered into another line. I put my stuff through the scanner and then they hauled it over to the super special table. I got super special magic wand-ed over my whole body – That was fun – while then went through my bags by hand. Hmm fun. I’ll have to remember not to make some many changes in such a short time. I don’t think I need the super special treatment at security again.
Most flights started getting canceled so I was worried that I would get stuck in Ohio. There was a little scare, I had already gotten onto the plane and it pushed backed and was de-iced, but then we went no where. The city shut the runway down for 20 min. Luckily once it was cleared we took off.
Dulles was a blur, as I got of the plane onto a shuttle then right back onto another plane. No waiting time thanks to the delays in Dayton. The flight to Roanoke was actually about as long as the flight to Dulles. When we landed they didn’t use stairs to let us off the plane they had a gang plank. It was sleeting hard in Virginia and the plank was slippery. We all had to hold onto the hand rails with a very strong grip and shuffle down the plank to keep from falling. I then got to have the fun of spending 20 minutes clearing the ice off the rental and an extra hour driving on slick roads to get to the house. It was 1 am before I finally got in. But I’m happy because I got where I wanted to be and only was delayed by a few hours so that’s ok with me. I’ll tell you what though, at times it seemed like the weather was doing its best to keep me from traveling.
Update:
Before posting this: Currently I am in the Roanoke airport. I don’t know what is wrong with Delta but they moved me to another Airline again. In Dayton they put me on United and now I’m on US Air. That must have cost them twice as much as what I paid for a ticket no wonder the airlines are in trouble. So I got the super special treatment at security again. Whohoo. Let’s stop the terrorist.
Also of interest is the fact that I went to and visited Mitch today at UVA; beautiful school, great area. The funny thing though that I drove 2 ½ hours from Charlotte to Roanoke and now I’ve been rerouted to through Charlotte to get to Dayton!!! Craziness, just plain Craziness. Hopefully I will get to Dayton tonight.
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