Missed my 7:20pm Southwest flight out of BWI due to traffic and rain. My first miss of 2011, hopefully my last.
I have missed one flight per year in 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Southwest put me on a flight to HOU, Houston Hobby. Arrived to find mostly booked hotels, spent the night at the airport La Quinta, a first. No restaurant or way to order food, so the manager gave me some delicious cold pizza.
Today: HOU->DAL: Dallas Love, where I discovered but did not sample meat-topped Breakfast Pizza
DAL ->SAT: sat next to a Sports Agent who had served in Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
SAT->ATL: Amazing Pulled Pork Sandwich and entertaining Gingrich interview on CNN
ATL-> DCA....
We hit terrible turbulence from ATL->DCA, flying directly into a thunderstorm. The plane bounced around and the pilot repeatedly loudspeakered with soothing comments. His landing was brilliant but we sat on the tarmac for what seemed like 30 minutes.
Six airports in the last 24 hours. There's no place like home.
