Shad

It seems that somewhere I picked up some bad travel karma. I was up this morning (Sat) at the crack of dawn to finish packing. Joy was going to swing by and pick me up around 10:30 for my Noon flight. I was scheduled to fly from Austin -> Newark -> Oslo. If all went well, I would have been in Oslo about 6 hours ago.

Unfortunately, there’s about 18″ of snow in Newark… no flights in or out. A quick call to Continental (53 minutes) and I was re-booked. Oddly, though I was leaving much later and going through two connections, it looked like it was only going to set me back like 6 hours or so. No big deal, right…. right?

Well, the flight out of Houston was delayed a tad (by “tad” I actually mean 2 1/2 hours… all of it spent on the plane… in the window seat… in coach). I therefore missed my connecting flight out of Amsterdam. So now I’m sitting at a lovely little laptop bar here in the airport. My flight out doesn’t leave for another 4 hours. This puts me getting into Oslo a full 12 hours later than originally planned. It also extends an already long day (a long week for that matter).

All of that said, I’m having a great time and loving every minute of it. This is already proving to be quite an adventure. Stay tuned…