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9:30 Coffee Break: the Travellin' Blues

Posted at 9:32 AM on August 10, 2009 by Jim McGuinn (1 Comments)
Filed under: 9:30 Coffee Break

The weather is clear. It's a short direct flight home, right? How about mechanical failure and a 30-hour delay, including more than doubling the distance travelled in order to get home? That's what my weekend turned out to be. Arriving at the airport in Albany on Saturday afternoon to get home from a vacation week in Vermont, I knew something was up when I saw them unloading the luggage from our plane at the exact time we should have been boarding. After cancelling the flight due to mechanical issues, my wife, 3-year old son and I entered that specifically Kafka-esque zone when this happens. Sure, the airline got us a room (just what you always wanted - Saturday night at a horrid hotel in a non-descript chain store part of town!), but it ended up costing us over $100 in unwanted food expenditures (although it was fascinating to make our first ever trip to an Outback!). Returning to the airport the next day, there were no problems, but it's always a drag when your simple direct flight is switched to a rather non-direct detour thru... Atlanta, which last time I checked was nowhere near the most logical path from New York state to Minnesota.

Thanks for the suggestions and commiseration today, although after reading this story in NewsCut, I feel positively lucky to have arrived back home at 1am this morning.

1) Beach Boys - Sloop John B ("I wanna go home")
2) Built to Spill - The Wait ("you wait" repeat 50x)
3) Tom Petty - The Waiting (well, it is the hardest part)

If you've got a great tale of travel woe, feel free to share below...

Comments (1)

The fantastically wonderful Coffee Song!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0k97U6LlYk

Posted by molly | August 10, 2009 7:08 PM

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