j_cheney | Travel and Lodging.... (Reply)

Now that I've updated my website, Carpe Libris's website, the

wotf24 site, and done various other filing work, I can start to recap the last week.

I suppose I should start with the preface that at my age, I have a pretty good idea what works for me and what doesn't. Two things that don't are a)travel and b) socialization.

Travel makes my digestive system freak out, I do bizarre things with water retention, and I have a bad tendency to be congested when the plane takes off, resulting in agonizing inner-ear pain. All that aside, I actually do enjoy travelling for pleasure. I don't like it so much for work, one of the reasons I'm no longer a buyer. It got really old, despite my being much younger then.

We flew United, in four legs. From OKC to Denver, the personnel were fantastically nice to me and

displacedtexan. They arranged for wheelchairs all the way, allowed him to preboard, and put him in a good seat. DIA, which I've never visited before, was really awesome, particularly the Cantina restaurant. DIA to LAX was good, too.

We were delayed, sitting 3 hours in the plan at DIA while they fixed the hydraulics on the landing gear right under me. Always reassuring. As tights as things are these days, they can no longer just take a malfunctioning plane out of service, so that was our only hope of getting there.

Flying back was a different story, as LAX is a ZOO with terrible signage and unhelpful personnel. Sorry, there's no way around that. Our flight finally left about 1:15 late (and we had 1:23 layover in DIA). Fortunately for us, a skycap whisked

displacedtexan to the far end of the terminal at a jog, and we were luck that the last leg of our trip was also delayed (again, maintenance). The people at DIA were far more helpful that those at LAX.

Unfortunately, I was horribly congested with con-crud by then--despite copious amounts of Sudafed--and the landing was NOT FUN. There was so much pressure that my nose suddenly started running copiously. I was rubbing my jaw with my fingers and holding my shirt to my nose with my palm. My ears have still not completely cleared, but they're much better. ;o)

Lodging? Our hotel was in Agoura Hills, outside Malibu. The personnel there were lovely and helpful, which is good because, we were mostly stuck in the hotel. There wasn't anything within walking distance (particularly for

displacedtexan) so we ate almost every meal in the hotel restaurant, which got expensive. (There were actually three restaruants in a nearby mall (which also has a running shoe store), but as they were more expensive than the hotel's restaurant, that limited our interest in them.) I wanted TACO BELL pretty badly, and will go do that for lunch today, I think, which will surely cure my con-crud.

But the hotel was nice and the personnel, as I said, lovely. I wouldn't mind staying there in the future, but I will rent a car next time. ;o)

I realize this doesn't actually have anything to do with the workshop, so I'll not tag it that way.

displacedtexan and I are glad to be home with our dog and our bed and I with my desktop....