Celebrate this Week : March 12, 2017.
Slice of Life March Challenge. No. 12.
Today I celebrate a SAFE JOURNEY.
Today I celebrate HOME, SWEET HOME.
Today I celebrate having TIME.
Yesterday, I wrote my slice (Journey Home) while on a long Miami layover, when we were between our first flight and second flight of our three-flight journey home. I wrote of my anticipated arrival home per travel plans, per flight schedules. Well, it didn’t happen that way. Instead our craft that was to take us out of Miami had engine / fuel problems, and the delay meant we would miss our CLT connection. So I immediately called the AA Executive Platinum Desk to see what options we had. There weren’t many; we chose to re-routed to SEA on a red-eye, and then catch a morning shuttle to PDX.
We flew for 7 hours:
–Departed MIA for SEA, 9 PM
We rocked, jerked, bounced across four time zones
–Arrived SEA, 1 AM
We waited for 4 hours:
–Arrived SEA, 1 AM
Airport clocks jumped from 2 AM to 3 AM in one second
–Departed SEA for PDX, 6 AM
Do the math,
Pay attention to the notes
And you will see
that I gained three hours
and then lost one
all on the same night
Happy Daylight Saving Day
Check out my grumblings about Daylight Saving Time,
written in the fashion Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham,
Change the Clock.
You really must come on over and celebrate at Discover Play Build with Ruth Ayres and others who have linked in to share their celebrations this week.
Thank you, Ruth, for hosting a place for us to celebrate with you! #Celebratelu
Thank you, Two Writing Teachers, for hosting
2017 Slice of Life Story Challenge
Glad you made it home. I once experienced two Friday the 13ths by crossing the International Date Line in my travel.
🙂 A superstitious person might want to avoid that. On trans-Pacific travel, we usually arrived our destination in USA (west coast) close to the date and time we began our departure.
Wow…you are now officially a time traveler. What a journey; I bet you are glad to be home!
LOL… love that “time traveler” I’ll have to remember it for the grandkids.
What a travel headache! Glad you made it home safe!
Thanks for saying! It actually gave my husband one. 🙂
What a trip! I’m sure you must be very happy to be home.
Very happy. 🙂
Such a creative post! I hope that you got some rest!
I scheduled Monday as a backup day… so I’ll get some rest.
Hope you programmed in some good sleep either during or after, yikes!
Yes, nothing major scheduled for Monday! Sleep was evasive during the travel
ha! I like how you mixed in a time twister in there for the reader to figure out – glad you made it, but it sounds like quite a journey!!
It just sorta popped up as I played with the slice… thanks for noticing!
Yikes! I am still hanging on from the rocking and bumping! Everyone here is exhausted from the loss of one hour, never mind the time-zone travel.
Thanks for stopping by! It was pretty much nonstop turbulence… tossing us around.
Note to self: don’t travel on spring daylight savings time. Time flies away to fast already. What a nightmare of rerouting. Glad you were able to finally make it home.
Rerouting is usually a nightmare because our options are limited. Love your “note to self”
One of the joys of traveling. When we flew to Africa we had a delay leaving JFK and as a result missed our connection in Dubai. We then had an eight our wait til we could make connections.
Yes, missed connections are the worst… (especially with international travel) and lots of times I think they can be avoided. (Not this one with engine problems)
Ugh, traveling home can be such an adventure. Glad you made it home, despite the reroute.
Thanks for stopping by…. It is good to be home… and not in an airport.