Today begins my two weeks on the road, traveling first to Atlanta for business. Originally I opted to leave on the President’s Day holiday in hopes that I could get into Atlanta at a decent time, and be checked-in so that I could watch 24. Unfortunately, it looks like that’s not going to be happening.
This morning I left a little early to have breakfast, but after that everything that could go wrong did go wrong in terms of delays – from the restaurant taking forever, to traffic being bad, to bad parking, to the stupid automated check-in not taking my reservation (because it was too late and told me to go to the desk). After waiting in line for 20 minutes, it was obvious that I was not going to make my flight. Right now I am on standby and if all goes well I will be departing Denver at 7pm and arriving at 12am. This wasn’t exactly the way I had hoped to start off my trip. Argh…
Update: Well being on stand-by was no help for the 7pm flight. Now I am stuck on the 11:59pm flight, which will put me in the ATL by 5am. Not exactly happy with it, but at least I’m guaranteed a seat. I’m just glad that I managed to find some free Wi-Fi on the B Concourse at DIA.