Time Traveler
9 Oct
If I asked you to bet on whether we would make it on time to New England given the following circumstances, you’d probably not take the bet. Our 4:30 a.m. wake up call came at 4:45. Then I locked myself out of our hotel room with my pillow still inside and had to wait for the hotel attendant to show up at the desk to get it back. We took the wrong turn twice on the way to the airport in Billings. At 5:15 (just 45 minutes before departure) I ended up in a long line at check-in at the airport behind two groups of people who spoke English as a second language. I checked in one minute before the cut-off. I was in such a rush to get to security that I didn’t notice the self-check-in spitting out four more boarding passes, and then had to run back to check-in from security to retrieve them. We had two bags with “suspicious” items and Doug had to wait 10 minutes while his bags were searched (to no avail). Two minutes before departure in Denver we realized that I had lost our camera bag (with three cameras in it). I had to run to the bathroom, the lounge where we waited, and then down to Traveler Information where two policemen interrogated me about details of the camera bag before they coughed it up – which had been left there by some kind person. All of this happened and we still managed to make two early flights and arrived four hours early to Manchester, New Hampshire. And I had to laugh.
I made a comment on your original post. How was your visit to New England once you finally got there?
I’d be an utter, quivering nervous wreck. I have had some close calls, (broken down car, caught ride with pizza delivery guy, etc.) but….you win! How was your visit in New England?