Best-laid plans aside, I’m sitting on the tarmac in Columbia, S.C. Fog in Atlanta has us diverted … 210 miles east of town, a friend informs me. Saved a few minutes of phone surfing to figure that out.
Still hoping to get over to Oglethorpe to talk to some of the coaches in that tournament, including 2004 finalists Wilmington and Bowdoin. If we don’t get off the ground soon I’ll be able to listen to that entire game.
Assuming it’s on my laptop still.
Pat:
Next time take AMTRAK’s “Crescent,” Washington-Atlanta overnight. It might run late, but at least you’ll not be stranded in an airport lounge because of weather. 🙂
Ehh, no thanks. But everything they say about traffic appears to be true. Just took 40 minutes to go 5 miles.
Quick chat with CNU coach C.J. Woollum after practice, who has a team in an unusual spot, at 1-7. “If we’d have played better and coached better we’d be 3-5 instead of 1-7. But it didn’t happen.”
Christopher Newport’s roster is pretty young, one senior, three juniors.
Today was a first for me — seven lanes of jammed traffic. Not sure I’d ever been on a seven-lane highway before.
I know this was a busy time of day, but still, it was 3 p.m. on a Friday during a holiday week. I would really hate to see it at rush hour.
I’ll add a half-hour to all of my planned trips now. 🙂
Major memory lane for me.
Around 1988 my family was setting out on a trip to the caribbean, our connecting flight to Puerto Rico went through Atlanta. Low and behold our plane was diverted to Columbia, SC for 2 hours due to fog and rain in the Atlanta area. We later learned the real reason was the pilot was to inexperienced to land the plane in the weather conditions in Atlanta……..comforting.
While in Columbia we picked up 9 members of the South Carolina basketball team, who had a game the next day vs Georgia Tech and were having a terrible time getting to Atlanta. I guess driving wasn’t in the budget.
So we waited in Columbia for a pilot with enough experience (sure enough he had lots of grey hair) and finally made it to Atlanta, where we touched down on the runway within 50 feet of first sighting it. Yikes!
Missed our connection to Puerto Rico, which meant we missed our boat to the caribbean, which meant we would fly to Barbados and wait a day for the boat to catch up with us. So we spent a day body surfing on the most perfect body surfing beach I’ve ever seen (Rockaway Beach), enjoying a beautiful 85 degree caribbean winter day.
In the end it all worked out, we were compensated with a free cruise for our troubles and I’ve never had to fly through Atlanta again.
Hope your trip works out just as well.
Too bad that women’s game with Bowdoin was moved to 10 pm, wow, yeah, no thanks!!
A common mistake most people make is thinking that Rush Hour actually ends… it never does. Add 30-45 minutes on every trip involving an interstate during daylight.