You Can't Get There From Here!

     Air travel is a great way to get where you're
going.....as long as you don't have to be there on
time!
    We spent most of the hours of our first day of
vacation at the Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton
International Airport.
    The first of our three scheduled flights spent
those hours undergoing some kind of "Maintenance
Service" in Detroit.
    That wasn't a big concern. In fact I personally
think it's kind of good to know that your
airplane is in good working order!
    Of course, as I mentioned, this was the first of
three flights designed to get us to Rapid City,
South Dakota. Flight number two was to take us
to Minneapolis. But in order to catch flight number
two, flight number one has to be on time.
   Actually....it never came!
   We were re-routed to Charlotte, N.C.
   That flight got us there just in time, with some
very fast walking, to catch another plane to
Minneapolis!
    Of course by the time we got there it was
about Midnight (our time/11pm Minneapolis).
   Since a "Maintenance problem" caused the
initial delay the airline was obligated to put
us up in a hotel (a beautiful one by the way!)
   We've got through Security three times so
far. We even went through that new "Full Body
Scanner." No big deal at all. And, since you're
required to lift your arms in there I looked a
lot thinner!
   As I write this I'm in the terminal in
Minneapolis, at our gate (which is at least a
mile from where we came in), watching the
rain and lighting and glancing at a flashing
board that insists our flight is "on time."
    IF everything works out as planned we'll
link up with the tour group we're suppose to
be hosting on the way to Mount Rushmore
in South Dakota.
   Here's hoping it works....and that all your
NEWS is good!