The Forgotten Blog Post

Last night as I was going back thru my previous posts for this trip, I discovered that the very first post written Aug. 27 & 28 was never published.  Somehow in all the mess that was the start of our trip, I didn't get around to hitting the "Publish" button.

So here it is, better late than not at all.

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 ORIGINAL TITLE: Blogging Sooner Than Expected & Not From Where I Expected

Still in the U.S.

Tuesday afternoon:

Here we are still @ Sky Harbor.  The plane was supposed to leave 8:30 this morning & it's 11am now with an often re-scheduled departure of noon (maybe).

Thank goodness for the United Visa card that gives us two one-day passes a year to their clubs & there's one here.

If we can get to Dulles today (that's not yet certain), then tomorrow we leave Dulles/Newark/Paris.   United will pay for meals & hotel, small consolation.

Tuesday evening update:

The 2/3 full passenger list dwindled down to seven people.  Normally they'd cancel the flight, but I think they need the aircraft at Dulles.  So...they upgraded all of us to First Class & off we went, 7 in 1st class, economy section dead empty.  Weird.  I tried to take a photo but was told it's illegal to take photos of interiors of aircraft.

Wednesday morning update:

By the time we got our vouchers for food & hotel, then got to the hotel, a resort actually, about 20mins from Dulles it was 1:30am today/ Wednesday, Eastern time.

While still back in PHX, we set up flights from Dulles to Newark, then to Paris.  The folks ahead of us in line for re-booking took the last available seats in tonite's flight Dulles/Paris.  A very nice French family, husband/wife/20-ish year old son.  They had worse luck than we did.  Vacationing 3 weeks on Maui, made it to SFO, then their SFO/CDG flight cancelled.  Somehow got to PHX & you know the rest.  They've been in transit 3 days & still not home.  They're not traveling for vacation, but going back to work.

They weren't on our flight last night, having opted to leave PHX a bit earlier to go PHX/DEN/IAD.  We know this cuz we saw them at b'fast in the dining room this morning. We're all on the 1pm resort shuttle back to the airport.

Actually we could've been on their flight directly to CDG, two seats opened up but they were middle seats in two different rows.  NFW!

 Gots to run.