Travel Craziness

Russ went to DC for the day yesterday. Well, supposedly for the day. He texted me from DCA late in the afternoon. “Looks like my flight is delayed by at least two hours.”

Two hours turned into five when they finally proclaimed his flight canceled. His original airline had no available seat for today or the the next day. As it was late he was spending the night in DC no matter what. Russ looked into plans to rent a car for this morning, then got a message that his airline had found him a seat on a different airline.

The new plan was to fly out of DCA at 8:30AM to Greensboro. Sit in the Greensboro airport all day and then fly to Charlotte and then fly to RDU and get home tonight at 11:35 tonight. What kind of craziness is that.

So Russ flew the flight to Greensboro this morning and I drove over to pick him up and drove him back to RDU to pick up his car. Thankfully I was home this week and could do that.

If you are flying anywhere this summer the theme needs to be flexibility. You just don’t know what is going to happen. If you need medication always being a couple extra day’s with you. And it never hurts to have extra underwear in you bag. Not that Russ follows these rules, but the rest of you travelers might want to consider them.

I’m just happy Russ was not on that Delta flight, which landed inCharlotte without it’s front landing gear down. Great job from that pilot who put that thing down so carefully.

As they used to say on Hills Street Blues, “Be careful out there.”