It’s Tuesday evening, and we’re sitting in the Roanoke Airport waiting for our 6pm flight to Charlotte, connecting onward to Orlando. We checked in our six pieces of luggage on American Airlines, and fortunately due to both our Executive Platinum…
Last Business trip of 2016
Oh the joy of travel delays! What started off as a good business trip (and the last one for work this year), was tarnished by a lengthy delay in DFW Airport. I’m writing this from the plane, where I’ve been…
Trying to get home from Newark
It’s Thursday afternoon at 1:35pm, and I’m sitting in Newark Airport, waiting for my delayed Jet Blue #1727 flight back to Orlando. It’s supposed to depart at 1:39pm, but it’s now showing a string of delay texts on my…
Post-Thanksgiving travels . . .
I had a wonderful Thanksgiving with my family in Roanoke this past week. It was nice to be off work for four days, and travel to and from Roanoke was on-time and stress-free, probably because I traveled up on Thanksgiving…
Election week in the Steel City
Finally after a grueling year and a half of endless ads, news spin, debates, mud-slinging, and Saturday Night Live skits, I watched the election unfold and ultimately decided from a suburb of Pittsburgh where I was working this week. And…
Pre-election blues!
It’s Monday night and I’m writing this from my hotel room in suburban Pittsburgh, where I’m staying here thru Friday on business. Steve (DOS) and I had a fun weekend home in Orlando this past weekend, and as always, it’s…
Visiting Mom in Roanoke
Steve (DOS) and I had a quick and last minute trip to Roanoke to see my family, and especially my Mom, who had fallen this week while getting things ready in their new home. Mom was hospitalized for three days,…
Aloha bound – Flight to Honolulu
I’m trying to catch up on my blog, and what better time than a maintenance delay while we’re on American Airlines flight 5 from DFW to Honolulu. We are actually going on to Kauai, but flying via Honolulu, and connecting…
Last Flight out of Orlando
It’s 5:05pm as I write this, (and cross our fingers), our flight 2505 from Orlando to Dallas that we just boarded will depart shortly. While the title sounds a bit dramatic; i.e. shades of a modern day ‘Casablanca’, the Orlando…
Walking in Memphis
I had a quick 3 day trip to Memphis this week. It was quite an easy work week there as Monday and Wednesday were travel days, and Tuesday was supposed to be an all day meeting, but ending up finishing…