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Adventures of the Spirit Eagle - Glacier NP - Day 14
by Jim & Ginny OwenMonday - August 10, Silver Spring, MD -
Jim: Another day of waiting - breakfast at Denny's, a walk across the street to mail the stove back home, a taxi to the airport - and it was noon. But our flight didn't leave until 1355 - and it was late too. Late enough that I started to worry about making our connection in Minneapolis, but we did get there in time. They didn't feed us on the plane so we were hungry when we got to Minneapolis but we were too late to get something to eat - they were already boarding our flight to Dulles. So we got on the plane and then sat there for 45 minutes while they "shifted luggage to balance the aircraft". Should have gotten something to eat before we got on the aircraft. Seems Northwest wasn't on strike - but they were in a "slowdown" mode. Getting a shuttle out of Dulles was a trick, too. When we finally got one it took him 90 minutes to get us home - and we were the first stop. That's normally a 40 minute trip when I drive it - in traffic - and he was doing it at 0100 with no traffic. The upside is that we got to meet Bob Mason - he was returning from a week's climbing trip in British Columbia. Again, we got home and crashed - all those dirty clothes and equipment will wait until tomorrow.
© Copyright 1998 Jim & Ginny Owen
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