Sunset sail. Key West, FL
After blowing out Da Wolf’s Picasa account, we migrated the pix from this trip, as well as other joint jocularity such as RenFaire, over to our joint Picasa account. We’ve been slowly adding more pix and we have a tone of video to edit too, so keep those eyes peeled for more.
So a few interesting tidbits about the trip. First, we pushed over 1.25GB of data through the RevA card in pix & flix. We really should’ve used my DROID and PDANet as they have unlimited bandwidth. Looks like the trip is going to cost me another C Note. Ugh. Speaking of unlimited bandwidth, with the Pandora App installed on my DROID, we play ALOT of cool music at the simple suggestion of a playlist. Love that app!And I drank a ton of Pennsylvania beer. Odd as that sounds, I drank Yeungling Lager every chance I could. I enjoyed it so much, I’m going to have Total Wine ship some from the east coast out to our west coast store. Huzzah!
Key West Tarmac
The Key West airport is about the most laid back airport EVER, (including Coos Bay, OR, which is smaller by 3 ‘gates’). We showed up with baggage overweight, (FYI, to leave Key West, you can only have 1 checked bag per passenger and it needs to be under 50lbs or it will cost you, big time!), but they were very cool about it. “Oh, you can sit over there and try to get your bags squared away. There’s a scale for you too. Would you like a cocktail?” Ok, the cocktail part isn’t true, but they were very cool. Same w/ security. At the ‘gate’ we saw all 4 gates. 4 doors in a single room all leading to the tarmac. Very chill. They even have a little ‘beach’ at the bar. Stress free travel.
Then we arrived in Atlanta. I’m going to start my #hatelanta social campaign. Every time we go through that airport there’s a fucking problem. We step off our plane and already the connecting flight is delayed 30min. Ok, more time to get a bite and relax, if one can relax in that hellhole of an airport. So, heading from our mid B gates to the A concourse, we practically get run over twice by the damn carts. The place is wall to wall travelers and just getting around is a real chore. Talk about buzz-kill. We get to the A cross-roads and our gate is where? Why, it’s 18 gates ALL the way down the walk way. *sigh* So, we bug out for Chili’s to get a quick bite. Surly hostess growls at us, but the waitress was friendly enough. We nibble and then get antsy to check on our flight, so we pay up, head downstairs and the flight is still leaving at 10:20p.
#hatelanta Airport
Off we go down the hall from A18 to A2. Guess what? After navigating the very trials of Heracles to get there, the damn sign says what? Gate has been transferred to A16. WTF?!?! Trudge all the way back the way we came. 9:45p comes & goes, no boarding. 10p comes & goes, no boarding & no announcement. Finally, flight delayed to 11:05p, but the announcement comes with another possible gate change. So, this is a Delta hub and we are sitting among TONS of open gates and they can’t find a gate to put the plane into. Honestly, that’s what they said, “we cannot find an open gate for this plane”. JAYSUS!!! Flight bumps from 11:05p to 11:11p and we get shoves to A13. *sigh* We’re BOARDING at about 11p, flight starts to taxi arounf 11:20p and we sit on the tarmac for a bit. Time on Luna’s watch when we begin proper takeoff? 11:45p. FFS! 2 F’ING HOURS from our original 9:50p flight time. We arrive in Phoenix after midnight, fight with baggage, wait forever for the bus to West Economy and finally get out and on the way home around 1am Arizona time. And we think they overcharged us for parking. From the best vacation ever right into “welcome back to your shit reality”.
Anyway, fourth day back into the daily grind and Sister Moon & I are TOTALLY missing the lazy days in the Keys. Unreal how these things happen. It’s not like we were loving the Arizona life lately anyway, but damn if ocean breezes and warm sunsets don’t infect your soul. I shouldn’t complain. We have each other, many friends and loved ones and 4 insanely beautiful fur balls who have been in maximum love overdrive since we returned. If only we had them all in Key West. Fortunately, we did get a brief reprieve from the onset of full-bore summer with a stormy week and temps in the 70′s. How did THAT happen?
