Night Driving in the Fog

In a surprising turn of events, I drove from San Antonio to Corpus Christi last night, with the last hour in deep fog in the dark. That certainly brought prayer to my mind, as I kept asking God for help as I varied between 45-60 mph, depending upon how much I could see. I was so glad to get to the street lights of Corpus Christi!

My travel day started off very happily when I was put on the earlier flight from Baltimore to Dallas. I was smiling as I looked at the monitor and saw that my later flight was being delayed by 1 1/2 hours. So this looked good!

However, when I got to DFW Airport, I barely missed the 4:40 pm flight to Corpus Christi. That was disappointing until I looked at the overhead monitor and saw that it had been cancelled. So it looked like I had four hours to spend wandering the airport terminals. I read quite a bit of the novel I bought at a bookstore at the Baltimore Airport (and self-indulgently paid full price for): Suite Francaise by Iree Nemirovsky, which is excellent. But even a reader like me can only read so much. Then I paid $5 for 20 minutes at a kiosk computer terminal, which didn't work very well, as you can see by one comment I wrote on the MD --> TX today! post. Talking to daughter AE was fun, and eventually I looked at the monitor again, only to be horrified by the 9:25 flight to Corpus Christi being cancelled!

I hurriedly went to a counter, where the ticket agent tapped away on her computer and asked if I'd like to go to Laredo?? But then I was offered stand-by on a flight to San Antonio that was leaving in 30 minutes, so I raced to the sky rail between terminals to get there and wait--AND they called my name! YAY!

So dear husband CB reserved me a rental car (that doesn't have cruise control), which I drove home last night. It was wonderful to come home, even if it was this morning.

This afternoon we'll drive to San Antonio again, both of us driving cars. MJ has a soccer game there, and I will return the rental car at the airport before we go to her game.

Now I'm just waiting to find out where my suitcase is!