Son of Holiday Travel Follies

[hrj]

So that 5:45 am flight out of Oakland that I got bumped to? It was "delayed indefinitely". I'm now booked on an 11am flight out of SFO via Washington-Dulles getting in to Boston ca. 11pm, which means I get to spend the night in Boston before getting a morning puddle-jumper to Augusta. This means that, in theory, I will be arriving in Augusta at 11:55am, 12/21, which will be slightly over 40 hours later than my originally-scheduled departure from Oakland Wednesday evening. There are, however, all sorts of things that can still go wrong with this plan.

But hey, I have an electrical outlet. I sprang for a day's worth of T-mobile wi-fi. I have two unread books. I have a couple notebooks worth of longhand composition (on my current novel) to be transcribed into the computer. I had a delicious sit-down breakfast of eggs Benedict with fresh Dungeness crab. The next step is to go on the web and line up a hotel room at the Boston airport for tonight. (If I were arriving at any reasonable hour, I'd try to connect up with random Bostonites for dinner ... but if I were arriving at a reasonable hour, I could make a connection to Augusta tonight.)

ETA: I now have a hotel room at the Holiday Inn Express at the Boston airport tonight. Yay.

Comments

[cryptocosm.livejournal.com]

Hey, look on the bright side - at the moment I'm looking out the window at swirls of white. This morning's first USAir flight from Boston to Augusta was cancelled, and the second is already showing a 1-hour delay an hour before the original scheduled departure. You might not have gotten out of Boston until tomorrow anyway.

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

It's been snowing fairly solidly since I woke up this morning. The weather website's insisting it's a "light snow mist." Um, yeah. Right.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that comment in your journal this morning and cringed. Well ... maybe they'll have it all shovelled off the runways by 11pm tonight. *whimper*

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

In the unlikely event that circumstances strand you at Dulles, drop me a line -- we're the only Montuori in the Northern Virginia phone book last I checked. We're about 5 miles from the airport entrance.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the offer -- I'm currently at Dulles but the boards are saying my flight to Boston is still on schedule (well, delayed half an hour from its original departure time, but at least it isn't saying "pending air traffic control" like some of the other flights are). If something untoward happens, I just might call.