In my last very exciting post, I described driving Nuria to the Richmond, VA airport, where she caught a plane to Charlotte, NC. From there, she was supposed to fly to Miami, FL, leaving Charlotte at 8:44 pm and arriving in Miami at 10:49 pm. But the departure time came and went with no flight out of Charlotte. Tuesday's bad weather caused the cancellation. She sat in the Charlotte airport from her arrival at 12:30 pm (a half hour past noon) until this morning when she finally caught a flight to Miami. She said that with so many flights canceled, the Charlotte airport was very crowded, with some of the passengers sitting on the terminal's floor. She said this would be the last time she would use two planes to fly to or from Miami. I agree that taking one plane would be the smart move, though probably more expensive.
She arrived in San Jose, Costa Rica, at 2:40 pm Eastern time, 1:40 pm Costa Rica time. She still had to go through customs and get transportation to her home in Alajuela. She let me know she had arrived at the airport but hasn't called or texted me since then. She's probably asleep. I'm sure I would be sleeping if I had been up for almost two days, sitting on crowded planes, and sitting, standing, and walking through airport terminals, lugging carry-on bags, looking for the correct gates while flights are being canceled and rescheduled and rescheduled again because of bad weather.
Before she left, Nuria bought a lot of food for me. She was worried that I might not be eating enough. She was probably right to be concerned. Since we went to the airport yesterday morning, all I've eaten is lunch, yesterday and today, that consisted of a handful of corn chips and a quarter of a can of deviled ham, and a salad last night. How did I survive all those years before Nuria came along? Maybe the Lord, in his infinite wisdom, looked down upon me from Heaven and thought, "This guy really needs some help. I'd better send him a helpmate." And then Nuria appeared. I bet she thinks it was her idea to live with me.
I started writing at about 3 pm and this blog has been lingering in the twilight zone of the Blogger editor since then. It's almost 9:30 pm and I'm going to hit the Publish button. This post won't win any awards but then, none of my previous 1946 posts have won any awards, either.
Tomorrow, dudes and dudettes, and take care of yourselves.
1 comment:
Greetings
I'm so glad Nuria made it safely -- I can imagine how tired she must have been. So nice of her to make you foods while she's away.
I think the winter time is so challenging to travel with flights around the country connecting to others from bad weather areas.
The time will pass fast while she's gone and soon she'll be back with you preparing for Spring. It's a good time to write more blogs -- the election in 2024 is a good topic -- I like the way you break down what's going on for easy understanding -- I'm still a fan of my candidate -- I can't help but think he's telling the truth about the corruption in our gov't. But you sure do a swell job of disseminating the information about the who, what and where ---
Happy New Year -- I do hope it brings you much happiness. For me I'm constantly running to events --- never a dull moment.
No snow here but I'm praying for lots of it --
Best wishes and hope you have a super day and month !!
Hope Nuria sends lots of pics from CR and you post them in your blog.
Best, LL
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