Travel Doom!

[firstfrost]

harrock and I have managed to return from the Frozen Northlands, after many attempts by the weather to keep us there forever. Our flight out of Madison on Friday was cancelled due to fog, and we were rebooked onto another flight very early Saturday morning, which was also cancelled due to fog. (As it turns out, that flight would have been out of Minneapolis, so it's good that it was cancelled, because they seem to have neglected to clarify that.). At that point, Northwest said "well, we can probably get you to Boston Monday night or so", which was a little later than the original plan. In the end, we ended up driving to Chicago and getting a plane from there to Detroit to Providence, where chenoameg rescued us (yay!), though for a while it looked like we would be trapped in Detroit instead, when the plane broke and had to be replaced with a new plane.

Also a new sort of travel irritation - most airlines will either force you to choose seats when you make the reservation (JetBlue), or will assign you vaguely sensible seats. Northwest seems to have chosen a third option, that being to give you random seats, such as splitting up two tickets travelling together. One gate agent was nice enough to move people around to reseat us; another said that the flight was full so there were no empty seats (well, we weren't asking for *empty* seats, we were asking to be switched with solo travellers... but anyway).

Um. Yes, Christmas was good, other than the travel. Was there Christmas? I mostly remember the travel, at this point. :) But here are some nice pictures of Fog.

Something that I have noticed: at home, there is my side of the bed, and there is harrock's side. When travelling, there is also an obvious My Side and His Side, such that we both know who has what side - but it isn't that left and right match the bed at home, it's that I have the side closer to the door and he has the side away from the door. I don't know whether this is because I'm lazy and cannot be bothered to walk all the way around the bed, or because he is worried that ninja will attack in the middle of the night and they can get me first. It isn't something we think about, it's just obvious. I'm wondering how it works out for other couples - do you sort by left and right? Door and not door? Near the light? Something else? Or do you have to figure out who gets what side as you go?

Comments

[fredrickegerman.livejournal.com]

I haven't been able to come up with a rule of thumb that actually has any explanatory power in these situations. Just that it gets sorted out and then it's done...

[desireearmfeldt]

I want to say we may have occasionally explicitly sorted by bathroom position, but often that's not an issue. I think we've explicitly decided to have me sleep by the wall if the bed is against the wall, but I can't actually think of a specific time the bed has been against the wall at not-home.