Fun Traveling
December 30, 2008 by Jeff
It feels so good to be home. Christmas with my family in Portland was great. I enjoyed the foot of snow even though I wish I could have gone out and finished my Christmas shopping and was not stuck at my parent’s house for most of the week. It was nice seeing family I had not seen since last Christmas as well as finally meeting a cousin for the first time.
Flying out to Portland was not bad. I had a 3 hour delay flying from Seattle to Portland due to the weather but got there still fairly early in the day. Flying home on Sunday was not as fun. I got thrown around from flight to flight due to mechnical failures and weather delays. Two flights and 6 potential flight numbers later I finally made it back to Dallas just a tad under 6 hours late. In all it could have been much worse. In the various airports I got to wait in, I was able to meet many people who had experienced the much feared 2 to 3 days of sitting in an airport, sleeping on the ground waiting for a flight to their destination or next connection flight.
For a few hours I did fear my checked luggage had been lost. What I found out once in Dallas is that my luggage made it to Dallas from Portland before I did and on a different carrier. Why couldn’t I have been on those flights? Lucky suitcase!
