Flight Time...

03/04/2011

Today I added another chapter to my ever growing travel log.  I have written in the past of beautiful days in cloudless skies of ubiquitous blue, and other times where I flew over a sea of fluffy, rolling clouds; joyful times and then there are the others.  Today is one of those “others.”

I began writing this day about 4:15 as I boarded a plane in Little Rock, Arkansas bound for St. Louis and eventually into Baltimore.  I was (please note “was” is the operative word here) to land in Baltimore at 10:10pm, late in the day, but still manageable.  If (another operative) the arrival time had eventuated, I would have made it to The Farm at about midnight or a little after. 

Shortly after situating myself in my usual Southwest seat, I was off to La-la land, which in itself is highly unusual.  I was awakened with an announcement the aircraft was being diverted to Kansas City because the airport in St. Louis was shutdown due to weather.  We didn’t have enough fuel to circle for the hour the airport was expected to be closed. The day was going downhill.  I wasn’t sure I had a chance to make my connection, we were already late.

We finally arrived in St. Louis to find the flight to Baltimore was delayed.  My hopes were rising when the Baltimore flight began to board, but hold on? 

After sitting on the plane for about an hour waiting for some other connecting passengers, the lights flickered and went off.  About ten minutes later a mechanic got on the aircraft and went into the cockpit.  Ten minutes after that we were told the plane was dead and we had to disembark. 

Fortunately Southwest does not want to put up an entire plane load of people for the night, and miraculously another aircraft has been found to get us to Baltimore.

I am holding my breath…I have thirty minutes before we are to leave again.

And that is all I have to say about that…

PS:  I got home at 3:40am…