{"id":1141,"date":"2010-02-05T20:29:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T01:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2010-02-05T20:29:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T01:29:10","slug":"blissdom-was-wonderful-but-theres-no-bliss-in-winter-air-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/2010\/02\/05\/blissdom-was-wonderful-but-theres-no-bliss-in-winter-air-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Blissdom was wonderful, but there’s no bliss in winter air travel"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, maybe I was a little nuts to jam 5 speaking things in four days across 2 states requiring air travel to\/from Providence, Rhode Island and Nashville, Tennessee. In the winter.<\/p>\n

But I really wanted to speak at both conferences — Blissdom<\/a> in Nashville and ETC<\/a> in Providence. So I said yes, and crossed my fingers for good weather.<\/p>\n

And the weather wasn’t too bad at either of my destinations. Unfortunately, the latest snowpocalypse<\/a> was forecast to hit the Mid-Atlantic on the day I needed to travel back to Providence (that would be today!).<\/p>\n

My original Southwest flights, through Baltimore, were canceled Thursday evening, so I rebooked on Continental through Newark. That flight got canceled this afternoon, so the airline moved me to a flight tomorrow night (Saturday). That wouldn’t do much for getting me back in time for a presentation tomorrow morning so I called to speak to an agent who assured me that, no the flight was today, just two hours before the original departure.<\/p>\n

So I hauled it for the airport. Only to find when I checked in, that the Continental Airlines phone rep was an absolute idiot. I was booked tomorrow.<\/p>\n

BUT the ticket agent at Continental in Nashville was smarter than the phone rep and\u00a0 managed to get me a seat on a flight leaving in 15 minutes. If I ran, I could make it. I made it with about 5 minutes to spare, thanks to wonderful fellow travelers who let me cut in line.<\/p>\n

And when I got to the gate, the gate agent fixed the back half of my reservation so I could get to Providence from Newark.<\/p>\n

So here I sit with about another hour to wait (I’ve already been here for about 4) but I’m moving steadily northward.<\/p>\n

Many thanks to the Continental Airlines ticket and gate agents in Nashville today for their help.<\/p>\n

Bread and water to the reservations system and the dumb ass phone rep I spoke with.<\/p>\n

And if you have to kill a chunk of time (and haven’t eaten all day) the Vino Volo in Terminal C at Newark is a lovely place to pass the time. I even found an outlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, maybe I was a little nuts to jam 5 speaking things in four days across 2 states requiring air travel to\/from Providence, Rhode Island and Nashville, Tennessee. In the winter. But I really wanted to speak at both conferences — Blissdom in Nashville and ETC in Providence. So I said yes, and crossed my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,111],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}