mac's misadventures...

i love to travel. and i usually love most of the little stuff that pops up to keep things interesting. i enjoy traveling with someone (the right someone/someones), but it's funny how upset so many people get and how much they can't take those little stresses, or can't think things through. i'd rather travel alone than go with people who get stressed and blow that all out of proportion.

today i was on my way to the airport to fly to cleveland when i got a call from one of the guys i was supposed to be traveling with. he's a little younger and was a little excited. apparently our flight got canceled. i was just a couple minutes out from the airport and when i got there he'd already called the travel agency and was trying to get them to change the tickets. they wouldn't do it until our travel orders got ammended because the alternate flights would be considerably more expensive. that's not how i would've handled it, i would've gone through the airline, but one thing that i'm big on is letting these young guys handle things on their own. he had a plan. it wasn't mine, but i wasn't going to shoot him down. it ended up not working out, so we did it my way and got the airline to arrange seats for us on another airline. so we went through milwaukee then got to cleveland. when we got to milwaukee we were running late and were supposed to switch to a little puddle jumper for the flight to cleveland that was run by yet another airline. we went to the little kiosks and it printed boarding passes for two of us, but not the third for some reason. so we had to cut in a ticketing line and piss some people to get his boarding pass and run a little but we made it.

we got to cleveland, but our bags didn't. i might have to go to military training in shorts and a tee-shirt. and i'm gonna have to go down to the counter and mooch a toothbrush and toothpaste in a minute. and the shuttle picked us up but dropped us off at the wrong hotel.

all in all, just a normal day. i didn't total a car today. serious rain storms and turbulence, but nothing to get upset about. funny how bent out of shape these guys are though. it's a big adventure for them to tell everyone about when we get home now. i mean, we're in the u.s., there's not alot that can really go wrong. maybe we would've been late for class or stuck in a hotel in milwaukee for a night, but that's definately no biggie. so they're both off the "possible traveling companions" list.

anyways. fun, fun.

hope everyone is having a good weekend. this is hopefully my last busy, busy one for a couple weeks. i think next weekend i'll be home and able to sleep late. i've got a couple big interviews next week so keep the good wishes coming. :) thanks!