Monday, February 11, 2008

Three nights in my own bed in two and a half weeks...


My friends know I love to travel so I am not going to complain too much about the excessive amount of  traveling I’ve been doing. Right now I am in Atlanta, a city where I lived briefly after college. I truly belong here with all the people who freak out about driving in snow. I think the Michiganders who speed around me when I drive like a  granny in the snow would agree. Anyway, I am sitting here with my fantastic view of the Bank of America (i.e. my favorite building in the ATL), there is no snow falling or on the ground, I just drank some Sweetwater 420 (fave beer you can’t get that north of GA) and had dinner with one of my all time favorite people - so things are good. Getting back to my point, it was another travel day from hell.


I decided that my version of Dante’s circles of hell are:

1) Sitting in an airport with your flight continuously getting delayed while in a different time zone, nowhere comfortable to nap and all stores closed b/c it is the middle of the night (LAX last weekend).

2) Driving in snow (shocking, I know) where visibility is zero, you keep sliding if you go over ten miles per hour while everyone is passing you and you have to drive with your flashers on b/c you are afraid of rolling off the road and dying and there is no end in sight (Indy to GR trip Sunday - still a little keyed up from that one).

3) Sitting on an airplane with no way to escape (connecting flight to DTW today; flight from GRR to ORD to try to get to LAX last weekend).

So today I missed my connecting flight because the Detroit airport just couldn’t get a jetbridge to the plane. We were all stuck on the plane waiting for a jetbridge for over 20 minutes. My connection was a Delta/Northwest Airlines codeshare flight. I am not even going to get in to the details of my hour long back and forth runs between various NWA and Delta ticket counters but let me say this...it pushed me over the edge today.

Enough venting...time to get back to gazing out the window from the 33rd floor of the Marriott - taking in the fantastic night time view of one of my favorite cities!