Way up in Kokomo 7-18-2015

Debbie left her house in the car at 8 AM central time to make her way to Indianapolis, IN.  This was to be a little over a six hour ride for her.  I on the other hand had time to finish up things at home before heading to the airport to fly and meet her in Indianapolis to begin our 2015 road trip.  Debbie was making good time as we chatted while I headed to the Atlanta airport.  All was going well until traffic on I-285 in Atlanta came to a dead stop.  The longer I sat the more worried I got that I could possibly miss my flight if this traffic didn’t get moving.  It did finally move and I got to the gate in plenty of time.  Then our captain spoke to us at the gate intercom (this cannot be a good thing) and he said he had some bad news, more bad news and then some good news.  The plane that we were supposed to take had a mechanical problem and was out of commission…period.  The good news was we were going to be able to use a plane currently in route from Savannah but again the bad news was we not only needed to change gates but we needed to change concourse….then he said we were still going to be late.  Everyone at the gate made a mad dash down our concourse to the trains.  The plane from Savannah arrived as we to the new gate and they turned it around quickly.  We were off arriving in Indianapolis only 4 minutes after the original flight was to arrive.   

Debbie had a uneventful drive and actually stopped in Casey, IN to photograph the world’s largest windchimes!  They are also building the world’s largest rocking chair across the street but haven’t completed that yet.

She picked me up and we still had a little over an hour’s drive to our first stop for the night in Kokomo, IN.   We were both starving by then and headed out to find a Mexican restaurant and a margarita.  Well, we found the restaurant but they had no margaritas…or alcohol for that matter.  Anyway, we ate and went back to the hotel and tried to organize our things and really we were in bed early.  So ends day one.

 

 

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Woot, woot...I did it!