Travel Day

This shot of the sunset somewhere in the southwest was the highlight of my travel day yesterday.  And I say day, because it was truly a day of travel.

I left the house in Tampa around noon getting to the airport an hour early and checked in with no trouble.  As I got off the train, I noticed an enormous line at security.  For a non holiday regular old Monday, I was a bit surprised.  I ended up standing in line for 40 mins to go through security which got me to my gate as they were boarding the last passengers.

I grabbed my computer and ipod and threw my bag in the bin and we were ready to take off.  The flight attendant came by to take all the empty glasses and i heard the 75 year old guy sitting next to me say "shouldn't she turn that off," referring to me and my ipod.  My ipod wasn't on, that's why I heard him telling on me, and I looked at the flight attendant and told her it was off.  She smiled at me and we didn't have to say anything but both understood the guy next to me was a pain in the ass.  By the way, he proceeded to slam four water glasses full of white wine in the hour and fifteen minute flight to Charlotte.

There were thunderstorms in Charlotte but we managed to take off on time.  About an hour before we were scheduled to land in LA, the captain said that due to the storm we ran out of fuel and needed to stop in Albuquerque to refuel.  Awesome!

Turns out they were quick with the refueling in Albuquerque, so we were only two hours late landing in LA.  On a regular night it wouldn't have been a big deal, but I had planned to attend a party at STK.  But instead of enjoying some kind of fish and wine at STK, i had an apple cinnamon nutri-grain bar for dinner.

By the time I walked into LG's place at 10:30 i was so tired.  For all the take offs and landings and amount of actual hours on the plane, I felt like I should be enjoying a latte in madrid.