edenfalling: circular blue mosaic depicting stylized waves (ocean mosaic)
[personal profile] edenfalling
So. My trip.

I left Ithaca as scheduled, transferred in Newark, and arrived in Omaha as scheduled. There I rented a car and (after getting slightly lost en route to I-29 north) drove to Denison. I visited Grandma Doris briefly that evening, which included listening to a local male chorus rehearse at her assisted living home. (Random entertainment is random, yes?)

We did a lot of stuff on Tuesday, which mostly boils down to driving around Denison so Grandma Doris could see the town (and her two old houses), going to Wal-Mart a couple times (first just for kicks, second to buy bathroom supplies), going to Cronks for lunch and dinner, and driving out to Yellow Smoke Lake to admire the scenery. Also I took a one-hour break around 2-3pm to go to the public library and sneak online -- ostensibly this was to check in for my Wednesday flights, but I spent most of the time checking email and livejournal.

Tuesday night I drove back to Omaha. This morning I got up at 5am, caught the 6am van to the airport, and caught my flight to Newark with no problems.

And in Newark, my troubles began...

Eh, it's a long and tedious story. Let me sum it up: thunderstorms, delays, and eventual cancellation. So my parents (who live in New Jersey, after all -- about 25 miles due west of Central Park) drove out to the airport, picked me up, and brought me to their house. We had steak for dinner and I am washing my laundry, and tomorrow my dad will drive me up to Ithaca in the morning.

It works out in the end. It's just that I spent seven hours in Newark airport, six of which had no clear purpose, and the seventh of which was basically spent waiting in a customer service line to confirm my flight's cancellation and get the customer service phone number for my parents to call and bitch about a refund. So phooey on them, and double phooey on Continental.

Profile

edenfalling: stylized black-and-white line art of a sunset over water (Default)
Elizabeth Culmer

December 2025

S M T W T F S
 123456
78910111213
141516 17181920
21222324252627
28293031   

Tags

Page Summary

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags