Our trip from Pennsylvania to Des Moines, Iowa was a little less than perfect.
We left Allentown, PA after a great four days. Then on to Chicago, then on to Des Moines, Iowa…or at least that was the original plan. After circling Cleveland for an hour, the pilot came on and said that we had circled longer than our fuel was available. So we went back to Dayton, Ohio to get fuel. There were some severe storms in Chicago so traffic was held up.
Anyway, we got back on the plane and got almost to the end to turn around and leave when we pulled over and were told to sit for 45 minutes. Then after 45 minutes, the plane turned around and we all got off again to wait for Chicago to open up so we could land. Five hours later, we got back on the plane to finally get to Chicago, knowing our flight from Chicago to Des Moines was probably gone.
Well, not exactly correct. It wasn’t gone but canceled. So we called airport hotels and got one.
Fortunately, we had made a plan to rent a car in Chicago and drive the five-plus hours to Des Moines as a plan B, Oh boy, are we glad we did. When we got on the Hertz bus, the driver said there were no more cars. And if you didn’t have a car, you would not get one. Plan B is good.
We got to the hotel, and after five hours of sleep, we were up at 4 AM to make the drive to Des Moines. We made it and kept calling to find our luggage, which was going to Des Moines without us sometime when a plane was allowed to leave.
Did I mention that all flights to Des Moines had been canceled and the next morning the flights were all delayed? So off to Dick’s Sporting Goods to buy clothes… two days in one set of clothes is enough.
After our session with the Iowa DNR group, we realized that the next day was going to be a rain event, so we went back to Dick’s for rain gear. We got to the hotel and washed our new clothes and hoped that our suitcases would come soon…. they didn’t.
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