Debbie and my insane travel adventure starts at 11am in Boston, ends at 6:30am in Lansing the next morning. In between:<\/p>\n
Taxi<\/p>\n
Train<\/p>\n
Gut-busting laughter with two other writer ladies; convince train conductor Mr. Dickerson to find us a New York Times when we tell him how cute he is<\/p>\n
Train to Newark<\/p>\n
Airtrain to Terminal<\/p>\n
Wildly understaffed pub-burgers, salad, and fries hit the spot<\/p>\n
Flight delayed for totally unknown reasons-sky is a beautiful, clear blue<\/p>\n
Sit at counter and argue\/coddle\/flatter Delta staff until they get us on a flight to Chicago on American; I learn the ways of the Siegel slip (rules do not apply to this woman); team up with Mary Ellen, our friend from Jersey who is also doomed in trying to get to Lansing<\/p>\n
Go back to baggage claim to get bags<\/p>\n
Convince grumpy American staff to give us tickets<\/p>\n
Go through security again, this time we are marked as possible terrorists and asked to go through a special screening; we set off the special alarm and it says EXPLOSIVES in huge red letters; machine is broken; we are not terrorists<\/p>\n
American flight is delayed<\/p>\n
Receive call from Orbitz TLC that flight from Cincinnati to Lansing was also delayed so we could have just taken that<\/p>\n
Fly with the violent taste of warm chocolate chip cookies wafting back from first class<\/p>\n
Get to Chicago, see every other hotel shuttle but ours<\/p>\n
Get to hotel, go to bed<\/p>\n
Get up at 4:45 am, Debbie and I put on the exact same outfit (black dress, tights, black boots)<\/p>\n
Barely make the shuttle, airport is mobbed; commence Siegel slip again<\/p>\n
United staff spends twenty minutes trying to find us a staple for our tickets<\/p>\n
Go through rigorous security again; this time the woman asks us if we would like a private room to be patted down; we consider it, but decide she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not our type<\/p>\n
Get on tiny plane; passengers are rearranged to balance out the aircraft (that tiny)<\/p>\n
Get to Lansing and meet Kevin who drives us the hour to Mt. Pleasant <\/p>\n
8 moving vehicles, 2 rigorous pat downs, 5 grumpy airline workers, and almost 24 hours later, we arrive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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