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SUNRISE AT DEATH VALLEY-Photo by Tom Cochrun
Showing posts with label happy campers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happy campers. Show all posts

Thursday, January 12, 2012

MORE FROM THE ROAD

MISERY MUST LOVE COMPANY
Update
Arrived Phoenix with prospects of a seven hour wait and
the best plans of the day- radio and tv interviews and
dinner with friends-down the drain.
US Airways could take us to Pittsburgh and then in,
saving two hours but still missing the events, or through
Charlotte with the same outcome.  We opted to avoid
flying directly into a snow storm or through one so we could
enjoy the thrill of two more plane changes.
Delays?  Phoenix is the capitol of misery today.
As the harried but cool customer service rep told us,
"we are down to just one runway today.  We have planes sitting on runways and people missing connections all over the place."  Don't you wish you were here with all these happy campers?
Maybe it is good then that people traversing airports
 go into this kind of zombie mode?
 Stunned, bewildered, confused, eyes a glaze.
Maybe it is the carpets.  Something in the patterns
akin to hypnosis-some old mind control research
sold to the keepers of the nation's airways.
Maybe that explains how an airline can delay the 
first flight of a trip, making you miss a connection and
not bother to change the rest of the flight plan to 
accomodate and for this you say 
thank you.
7 Hours in the Phoenix airport?  And I say Thank you?
Oh--I understand there could be 3-7 inches of snow when
we get in early tomorrow morning.  Hope the rental car
agency is open.  I wonder if any of my fellow 
Phoenixians for a day travel with a snow scraper?
A snow scraper?  
Thank you?
See you down the trail.