Travel Woes

Yesterday was a long day. Todd Littleton and I spent Monday in Northern Virginia with the great folks of St. Matthew's Episcipal Church of Sterling. Tuesday we were scheduled to leave at 6am from Washington Dulles. Our flight got cancelled and Todd's flight left at 6:55am and I totally scored a 9:30am flight. Which means I didn't have to get up at 4:00am EST. My flight to DFW was uneventful and packed. Former Congressman JC Watts was sitting in coach a few rows ahead of me. There were other famous people onboard I'm sure that I didn't recognize, which I'm convinced is always the case. ORU Head Coach Scott Sutton and former Oklahoma State great / Assistant coach Cory Williams were on my flight from DFW to Tulsa. This is my second flight with them in three weeks. Only the other flight was to Chicago.

Anyway I got to DFW, and saw there was a 12:15pm Tulsa flight boarding in another terminal. I quickly asked a American Airlines desk person if there were any seats left. She said, yes. 76 seats were open. Sweet.

So I book it to the other gate and .... they've already boarded. Nobody to help me. The plane is still there. But noone to let me in the door.
Plane pulls away and I'm dissappointed.

I have a seat on a 3:15 flight, so I decide to eat some lunch.
My 3:15 flight turns into 3:55. Then 4:15. Then 4:55 boarding time.

So I read 400 pages of Peter and the Shadow Theives, something my son Zachery has been urging me to do for a few months now. Then I watched the two hours of 24 that I'd missed on the Fox MySpace.

Finally I land at about 7:00pm in Tulsa. (did I mention that originally my first flight had me arriving at 10:15am in Tulsa?) Ugh!