Topic is Sleeping.
Shehawk (original poster member #68741) posted at 12:10 AM on Monday, January 2nd, 2023
I had an eventful vacation that began with a lock down roads closed sub artic once in a lifetime storm. Then flight to Vegas being cancelled for no crew, days in the phone to rebook, Water pipes freezing and bursting at a major airport so no water there. Then the door to our rebooked flight not closing so we could not get to our destination....missed it all!
Pivoted and took a localish train trip. Ate some good food. Looked at some apartments in the District, stayed in a lovely place. Even though one person had a family health crisis where they had to take a sudden flight to a completely different region, we still got everyone basically back where they needed to be for work etc.
No vacation. No city views, 5 star accomodations, dazzling shows, wonders of the world tours. All down the drain. Most of the points that were saved and some pooled cash used for this once in a lifetime kinda experience..no telling what we might or might not get refunded if much of anything.
Funny thing tho. Everyone on the trip acted like decent civilized humans. No one did drama. Every one took care of each other and some family and friends pitched in.
Better luck for us next year!
Happy New Year Everyone!
"It's a slow fade...when you give yourself away" so don't do it!
BearlyBreathing ( member #55075) posted at 2:09 AM on Monday, January 2nd, 2023
So sorry that your vacation went so terribly awry. But it sounds like you all handled it like champs and made the best out of a difficult situation. I hope that you get all the rebates and refunds and credits that you deserve, and that you can plan another holiday that is more relaxing sometime soon.
Mother nature was not messing around this past week, and she made things very difficult across most of the country.
Me: BS 57 (49 on d-day)Him: *who cares ;-) *. D-Day 8/15/2016 LTA. Kinda liking my new life :-)
**horrible typist, lots of edits to correct. :-/ **
Shehawk (original poster member #68741) posted at 4:12 AM on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023
So true Bearly. The weird thing is our chaos was not weather related. It just was life. And lack of crew and a maintenance issue.
But the wonderful thing is that free of the thing we don't talk about in this forum, everyone acted like normal decent supportive grown up human beings.
Sure we were disappointed but we were not jerks. Not to each other, not to the travellers around us. (And thankfully we each had friends and family to stay with and the weather was ok where each of us was originating from. Do we were blessed to be able to sleep in apartments or houses and not the airport or car) And we had something from the freezer/pantry to eat for Christmas (shrimp with Mac and cheese).
And we will replan for another time. Life goes on. Red Rocks, the Grand Canyon, and the glitter of Vegas will need to wait!
"It's a slow fade...when you give yourself away" so don't do it!
Topic is Sleeping.
