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#3109, Golden Nugget, Downtown Las Vegas.
Rising at 06.00 & a call to T in China, at the end of her second day of walking. Yippee! And to an early reading-breakfast…
… by the buffet trough…
… returning to an e-frenzy. John Kinde, Humour Specialist, has posted some highlight keepers from the second and third day of the NSA Presentation and Peformance Lab.
Look left…
Look right…
The Happy Gigster gets going I…
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Out the door.
23.10 Adjoining Gate B11, B Concourse, Chicago O’Hare Airport.
Patricia & Bob drove me from the Golden Nugget to Las Vegas Airport I…
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It was hard to wave goodbye, made easier by knowing that F&F will soon be together again in Austin, TX.
A straightforward check-in & security clearance with train to the D Gates I…
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the travel problems began. The in-bound A320 from Chicago was
delayed
at O’Hare with mechanical problems, arriving c. 16.25…
Our scheduled 14.25 departure departed took off c. 17.00, a packed flight…
… landing at O’Hare c. 22.20 Central Time, some 35 minutes after my connecting flight to England had left. United agents were on hand by the arriving-gate to deal with those passengers who had missed their connections & are spending the night in Chicago. I am re-booked to fly home via Washington Dulles tomorrow morning, and the Chicago>Washington flight boards at 05.30 with scheduled landing at Heathrow 21.55. I have been told that my bags will be transferred to the new flight; that is, I won’t get them tonight. The Airport Hilton, adjoining the terminal, is not on the courtesy-hotel list of accommodations made available to passengers missing their connections. The available courtesy hotel is, the agent suggested, 5 minutes from the airport. The last courtesy hotel I was given at O’Hare was a one-hour taxi ride, out in the sticks, the driver getting lost several times ont eh way there. Tonight, I guessed that at best I’d be in bed c. 00.30, without wash-bag & clean clothing, rising at 02.30 to return to the airport & go through security at 04.00. Starbucks opens at 04.00, the Red Carpet Club at 04.30. Decision: I’ll stay & spend the night in the airport.
On Concourse B, where to go?
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00.11 Texting T in China. The last flights to Chicago are arriving.
02.25 Managed to stop Kevin Taxi leaving Bredonborough to meet the missed flight. Fortunately, Kevin can meet the re-arranged flight in c. 19 hours’ time.
T has texted from Dun Huang - the Las Vegas of China - where the Team were escorted to the hotel by 8 police cars & hotel staff, in national dress, clapped in their arriving guests.
Starbucks opens in 95 minutes, the Red Carpet Club in 125 minutes.
