My View For Awhile: Wind Bound – UPDATED – ADVENTURE!!!

A few days in the cool breezes of the Second City will be good.

A little anxiety passed on his morning. Power was going on and off. Not knowing what was up, I got my car out of the garage and power went down for about an hour.

I don’t like starting trips like that. Hopefully, that will be the sole glitch.

In the other hand I got to the airport about a half hour earlier than I needed because in my distracted state I took the boarding time as the departure time. Hence, here I am, hungry.

And another thing! Must people speak so loudly on their phones? REALLY?

UPDATE

Good soup in the lounge.

So far so good.

UPDATE

Remember that part about “sole glitch”?

On planes they relentlessly tell you about seat belts and tray tables in the upright and locked position.

We landed in Chicago, whereupon, a few seconds later – BAM!

Did you know that airplanes can brake really fast?

Everyone lurched forward in their seats as the brakes brought us to an abrupt stop.

After a few seconds the pilot turned the plane about 45° to port, whereupon there was a bright white light shining in the our starboard windows. Being on the the starboard side, I could see less about 100 yards away the nose of an aircraft with its headlight on. It seems we were playing chicken.

It took a while to sort out, but eventually we did a 180 on the runway and went to the gate. No one was hurt.

Objects may have shifted in the overhead compartments!

That took care of our “early arrival”.

But we got here.

Why no pic?  Because I was, alas, in a middle seat, and the guy at the window, who was the size of a refrigerator, never budged from blocking it long enough for me to grab anything.