I like American better anway! December 4, 2006
Posted by Phillip in : travel , add a commentSo as I expected, my flight to SLC was canceled. I had a feeling when the pilot told us he was going to “reboot the plane” that I was in for Bad Things(TM). About 20 minutes after my previous post, they herded everyone off the plane and told us the flight was canceled. No problem right? Just go reschedule with Delta. So I walk my happy rear-end back to the ticketing desk and an agent tells me that my flight has been rescheduled for 9:00 AM with the same flight number. AWESOME! I walk back through security and end up back at the same gate where the agent tells me that the flight was not rescheduled and that the Delta folks are WRONG! This is a problem. The next flight leaves at 4:20 PM and my class starts at 1:00 PM (MST). Luckily, I have the benefit of having a whole department of travel agents at my disposal. With little-to-no effort, I get my tickets for Delta refunded and confirmed on an American Airlines flight to SLC. After running, yes running, through the Austin airport I arrive at the gate and slip through. After a very tight connection in DFW, I am on my way to sunny (cold, but sunny) Salt Lake. After that, all things just fell into place. Somehow, my luggage made it. My car is ready and it even has the navigation system. I pulled into the parking garage, walked down to the Novell office and sat in my chair just in time for class.
I love it when a plan comes together. Let’s just hope my flight hope is better.
reboot… wtf man!
Posted by Phillip in : Field Report, travel , add a commentLet me begin by saying, I am writing this from my BlackBerry while sitting on the plane. The pilot came over the loud-speaker about five minutes ago and told us he needed to “reboot the plane.” Of course, this is a little nerve racking, but better to do it on the ground than in the air. Well, the pilot just popped back on and told us the reboot didn’t work and they were calling in “the Engineer.”
To be honest, this all makes me a little nervous, but once again, better to catch it while on the ground. This topic does dovetail nicley into my next topic, a blog post which I intend to entitle “where to get your last meal,” stay tuned!
out again October 16, 2006
Posted by Phillip in : travel, work , 1 comment so farI’m sitting In a cab on my way to the airport. My cab was an hour late so now I will probably miss my flight (which leaves in 45 minutes). Also, it’s raining so I-35 is a holy terror of a mess.
The only upside to all of this is that my driver is the spitting image of Morgan Freeman.
More from Denver.
Utah December 6, 2005
Posted by Phillip in : travel , add a commentAhhh, I have finally arrived at my final destination. I am now sitting in my hotel room trying to figure out why, in this day and age, there is no wireless internet in my room. Time to break out the ethernet cable.
To finish off the rounds of pictures, here are two more. I took this one shortly after we left Denver, this is as you cross over the Rocky Mountains flying west. I experienced the worse turbulence of my life shortly after taking this picture.
This is a picture of the mountains just barely west of Provo, UT.
You can always tell when you are flying over Provo, because they have a mountain with a huge, and I mean huge, Y on it. Signifying Brigham Young University. It sure is pretty up here. I miss mountains and real trees. But I don’t miss the fact that right now, it is 12 degress outside.
Greetings from the Airport
Posted by Phillip in : travel , 1 comment so farI am actually writing this post while sitting on the plane at Denver waiting to take off. Here is a picture I took prior to landing, I *think* this is New Mexico, but I’m not sure.
When we landed in Denver, the pilot reported that it was approximately 32 degrees outside. After de-planing, I had about 30 minutes to run from gate B58 to B21. This is a huge terminal, so it took a little while. I really should have grabbed something to eat.
More later.