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December 25, 2003
From Travel Hell To Luggage Limbo
Merry Christmas to all. As you've probably noticed, my ambitious holiday publishing schedule hasn't exactly panned out. This is due, in large part, to a series of unfortunate travel mishaps that have befallen your humble scribe over the past could of days. It began with US Airways cancelling the last leg of my flight to Virginia, leaving me standing in a line at New York's LaGuardia Airport. If you've ever sought a deeper understanding of imagery surrounding Purgatory in Dante's Divine Comedy, try standing in a line full of angry travelers in a New York City airport two days before Christmas, wondering whether and when you're going to make it to where you're going. Four and a half hours and two flights later, the closest I was able to get was Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport, about two and a half hours away. Would I be telling you anything you hadn't guessed already if I told you that my checked bag didn't make it to Charlottesville?
So now it's Christmas morning. Apparently, the courier service dropped my bag off sometime after midnight last night, because my dad found it on the carport this morning. It's certainly nice to have clean pants again.
I don't want to suggest that there were no high points to the trip. Joe Lieberman was on my flight from Manchester to New York. He was sitting a few rows up. I got to talk to him for a minute as we walked from the plane to the stairway into the terminal. I wanted to snag a picture of the two of us with the crappy camera in my cell phone, but the Secret Service agent wouldn't permit it. He seems like a pretty nice fellow. Unfortunately, nobody really wants to discuss U.S. Middle East policy when they're half-deaf after spending an hour on a Saab turbo-prop, so I couldn't really engage him in a meaningful discussion.
I'll try to whip out a little more content over the next couple of days, so stay tuned.
Posted by Dan at December 25, 2003 10:06 AM
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