It was time to begin traveling to the land where I could terrorize kangaroos. \u00a0Angie and I took a taxi to the airport and arrived well before the flight was scheduled to leave. \u00a0This was primarily due to not having checked luggage in a long time, never having checked luggage outside of the country, and my own paranoia around being on-time.<\/p>\n
While sitting at the gate the plane pulls up, and passengers disembark. \u00a0We wait, and wait, and wait for the boarding call. \u00a0Eventually the gate attendants come on the overheads and say that there has been a mechanical malfunction, and the plane needs to go back to the garage. \u00a0All of the passengers watch in dismay as the plane pulls away from the gate.<\/p>\n
Around forty-five minutes later the plane returns, with the gate thanking us for our patience. \u00a0We board. \u00a0We listen to the safety announcements. \u00a0We pull out to the runway. \u00a0We sit with the engines running.<\/p>\n
After about thirty minutes of just sitting there the captain announces\u00a0that the onboard computer has a minor error message. \u00a0He says the plane’s manual says to perform a number of steps to clear the message. \u00a0This is what they’ve been up to for the last thirty minutes with no success. \u00a0Next on the troubleshooting list is… wait for it… shut the plane down, and turn it back on again. \u00a0I wonder to myself, which version of Windows the plane is running. \u00a0And of course FAA regulations state that we can’t do this where we’re at of course, we need to do this at the gate. \u00a0Back to the gate we go.<\/p>\n
Angie and I are becoming anxious as our window of time to transfer to our next flight is shrinking by the minute. \u00a0After sitting at the gate for around ten minutes we decide to get off and see about possibly getting another connecting flight. \u00a0Turns out, everyone is bailing to the next flight from PDX to LAX. \u00a0When we finally make it to the desk he moves us onto the next fight. \u00a0Minutes later as we’re boarding\u00a0the next flight\u00a0we hear that the other flight has been canceled.<\/p>\n
We take off, in the new plane, without any weirdness. \u00a0Two hours later we land in LAX and literally run to the terminal connector shuttle. This takes us, at a pace slower than walking speed, from the domestic terminal we landed at to the international terminal. \u00a0Once there we run again to our next gate with only minutes to spare. \u00a0As we round the corner they’re calling our row to board.<\/p>\n
Safe at last, and the only worry in our head is if our baggage has also completed the trip. \u00a0This is only a worry because the captain of this flight apologies for the delay because someone who checked luggage never made it to the plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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