... in a travel episode that's beginning to resemble the John Candy/Steve Martin classic(?) "Planes, Trains & Automobiles," I'm still stuck in the San Jose area. First it was a "slightly delayed, but still Wednesday" departure. Then it was "sorry, we're wrong, it's going to be Thursday." Then this morning we heard "Portland's airport will be closed all day," so now it looks like I'm (hopefully!) headed home tomorrow. Since I abandoned the rental car on Wednesday, I'm effectively a hotel rat for the time being (though I at least finally have some internet access, as you can tell!).
Assuming Portland does, indeed, recover from its week-long Ice Age and I do get home tomorrow, I'll try to get an update out this weekend, and then we should be back to business as usual on Monday...
Friday afternoon update: I'm back home now, and in a fitting tribute to the movie, I actually used a plane (to get to San Jose originally), a train (to get to the actual expo from my buddy's house), and finally, an automobile -- yep, I rented a 4WD and drove home starting last night, after I heard of the flight cancellations on Friday.
The roads were fine everywhere (including the Siskiyous and Portland, (where the biggest problem was the occasional person with chains going 25mph while the rest of us zipped about at 60mph). Total driving time was about 10.5 hours, airport to airport. Not bad at all, but it feels very good to be home!
-rob.
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