On the Road Again

Sitting in the SEATAC airport again after arriving on the red-eye out of Anchorage. We are continuing on to Philadelphia, PA, later this morning so that my wife can be with her father to celebrate his 90th birthday. Then we go off in search of warmer weather. We are thinking of Savannah, GA, or maybe even somewhere further south. The temperatures along most of the Atlantic coast doesn't seem a whole lot warmer than back home. I think the rough schedule is to drive him down to Virginia on Monday, then spend time with my wife's side of the family for a couple of days. Then we check the weather and head for somewhere that doesn't resemble Alaska.

Saturday Evening - Today was one of those flights where things went wrong. Of course, this is right after I mentioned that there have been very few delays or cancellations with Alaska Airlines in Barrow. There was a mechanical delay in Seattle due to fumes from the baggage compartment making their way into the cabin. They ended up cleaning something up but didn't say what it was. But they did remove all of the luggage, passengers and crew. When we got to Philadelphia, we found out that our luggage had made a detour to Minneapolis and is supposed to be delivered to the hotel tonight after arriving on a Delta flight. Hopefully, it makes it. The hotel is one that I had reserved on hotels.com just a short way between Philadelphia and Hershey and it turned out to be an incredible value. The bargain priced room is actually a very nice suite with a fully outfitted kitchen including a dishwasher. Maybe popular with business folks during the week but the place is almost deserted today (Saturday). Due to the flight delays, we didn't get our rental car until after dark and I don't really enjoy driving on these narrow roads after dark.

Update - The missing luggage was delivered to the hotel at 1:50AM. Apparantly the luggage didn't care for Minneapolis.

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