Total travel gear. Light is lovely.
I’m nervous to fly out of Cedar Rapids. I’ve done it three
times, and in two of those instances it was a second try that followed a failed
first attempt due to cancelled flights. Once it was the weather, a blizzard, no
one was getting out that day. This time there was a “minor” mechanical issue
that was just a short delay at first. The delay became almost three hours
before they cancelled it outright. Now if they’d done that sooner, I could have
caught my connecting flights and gotten where I was going on time. The original
route was CR-Chicago-LAX-Rarotonga, and there could have been any number of
ways to get to LAX by 10 PM for that one crucial 10 hour flight that only goes
once a week. Come on, I was at the airport in CR before noon! But no. Delays
upon delays ate up my six hour buffer time, the flight to Chicago was
cancelled, and I had to spend about an hour and a half on the phone with Air
New Zealand to book a new route: CR-Denver-LAX-Auckland-Raro. This involves six
extra hours of flight time, ten extra hours of layover, oh, and did I mention
arriving two and a half days late? Ah well. Though one ticket agent informed me
it was impossible, at least I’m on track (at time of writing) to get to Raro
before my cousin’s wedding and not after. And, importantly, I got to spend most
of two extra days with my very good friend Chila. That was a jolly good
compensation for all the headaches and tears and fears that I might not make it
to the big event.
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