The Balance of Travel Karma

[hrj]

To make up for last year's travel fiasco (36 hours in transit and two unanticipated hotel nights) I seem to have been one of the maybe 1% of airline travelers this weekend who had no substantial delays or problems. The Oakland-NY leg had only the originally noted 20 minute delay (although in order to check in I had to wade through a lot of annoyed people working on rescheduling other cancelled flights). When I got into NY this morning the Delta status board was showing about two of every three flights cancelled ... but not mine. And although we ended up sitting on the tarmac in line to take off for longer than we were in the air, the tailwind made up for it and I arrived only about half an hour later than scheduled. The drive from Portland to Waterville was a little hairy since the snow had scaled up to pretty much blizzard conditions, but we got through ok. Now I can just sit back and enjoy the snow for the next week and a half before having to worry about getting anywhere at any particular time again.

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[etfb.livejournal.com]

See, this is another way in which Australia is superior to the other, sillier nations. We have our holiday season in midsummer, when there's no snow and fog to ground aeroplanes and cause sixty-mile-long pileups on the highways. Of course, your happy memories of your time away can be somewhat ruined by coming home to discover that your entire suburb has been reduced to ashes because the local government was too busy closing schools to remember to trim the local pine plantations... but no system's perfect.

[xrian.livejournal.com]

If you have any leftover Travel Karma, may I borrow a bit for next week?

ETA: Best regards to your parents.