You can't say that we weren't able to get out of the airport this morning because we didn't get there early enough. Tim tried to get an earlier shuttle from the hotel, and wasn't able to. We were there, quite literally at the crack of dawn.
Unfortunately, the weather wasn't doing us any favors. This is the weather map from this morning that I mentioned earlier:
That front is just sitting there. Even if we could get past the headwinds, we'd still have to deal with the gusts on the ground, and the thunderstorms associated with the front. We considered flying into an airport about 100 miles west of here, but they were forecasting thunderstorms, winds and snow. Snow. Tim and I were beginning to wonder if we'd somehow gotten our camping weather confused with our flying weather - we can usually guarantee rain when we go camping.
So we decided to call it quits for the day and settle in to wait out the weather. Yet again, we give our apologies to Meredith and Gerrit. You've got the patience of saints. But then again, Meredith and I learned the values of flexibility at a young age from an excellent teacher.
Last night we stayed at a hotel that was hosting a conference about Pennsylvania Parole. The hotel was exactly the kind of place you'd picture would host that conference, so we decided not to go back. Instead, we found a new, much improved hotel on priceline (which I'm becoming a huge fan of), got settled in to our room, and took off to go see the Penn State campus.
We've even managed to have some fun, even if we'd rather be flying.
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"an excellent teacher" - tears :)
I have decided that if this front keeps sitting right there I'm going to enlist the list of Columbus to take a collective deep breath and all blow in an easterly direction around 10 am tomorrow to get things moving!
Well, something must have worked, because the weather's improved enough this morning that we're heading back out to the airport to give it another go. Maybe we'll actually make it to Columbus by the end of the day...
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