{"id":2161,"date":"2002-03-01T14:54:22","date_gmt":"2002-03-01T19:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2014-12-09T18:08:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T01:08:42","slug":"im_a_travellin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/03\/01\/im_a_travellin.html","title":{"rendered":"I’m a travellin’ man …"},"content":{"rendered":"

My trip home was relatively uneventful. Knoxville Airport (it has a fancy name for some local Influential Fellow, but I don’t recall what it is) is nice, if not particularly well-appointed with stores and eateries. It does, though, have rocking chairs at the picture windows, which is nice (even though they are a bit uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

Little commuter plane back up to O’Hare … but air traffic delays got us in a little late. And then we discovered that we couldn’t just go straight from the United Express concourse (F-gates) over to the United Sluggardly concourse (B-gates), but had to exit out to the sidewalk and be readmitted through security. Hilarity ensued, especially for folks with tight connections.<\/p>\n

After a while, they started mentioning this problem on the loudspeaker, and offering the explanation of a “security breach” at yet another terminal.<\/p>\n

Then I read this<\/a> and realized that it was all because some metal detector had been unplugged for four minutes. Great.<\/p>\n

Anyway, trundled off down the concourse, thinking I’d need to grab something to eat for dinner. I was also glad, given the security snafu, that I hadn’t stopped by the F-gates to eat.<\/p>\n

Huge, huge, throng at the gate for my Denver flight. The tres<\/i> cool displays over the gate indicated boarding was beginning in 1 minute.<\/p>\n

A minute comes a minute goes, along with a dozen or so of its brethren, and I went and grabbed a sandwich at a nearby booth. Eventually we were all loaded on to the 747 (and with some comfort, as the reverse of my original travel problem occured — rather than the normal 777, which had mechanical difficulty, we ended up with a 747, which carries more<\/i> passengers, not less. Imagine that.<\/p>\n

Uneventful flight, reading reading reading, until we arrived in Denver. At which point, two observations.<\/p>\n

First: 747s are big<\/i> Seeing the wings, with the flaps down, drove home how really frickin’ big those birds are.<\/p>\n

Second: Oh, look. It’s snowing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The latter led to an entertaining (not!) and relaxing (yeesh!) drive back home, with the aggravations of spinning out of control mostly <\/i>avoided by taking on instead the aggravations of driving behind snowplows with speeds of 25-35mph.<\/p>\n

But … I’m home! Exhausted, but home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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