With all of the travel I’ve been doing lately, Aimless Wandering isn’t all that far from the truth.
This past week we were back on the road again - this time for an emergency trip back east. While we’re back this week - next week we’re off again on yet another cross country trip.
We flew out of Oakland which is one of my least favorite airports (worse was that the outbound flight was a red eye). On the plus side, the construction that made my last flight out of Oakland a nightmare is finished. The downside was that signage at the airport still stinks, and despite the fact that the airport just isn’t that big I still found it frustrating to get to something as simple as oh Economy Parking…
BTW, I really don’t consider $15 a day in an open parking lot “Economy Parking.” Actually I consider it to be slightly less of a rip off than the $20 a day Oakland charges for their other parking lot which also isn’t covered. It just bugs me that long term parking as San Francisco Airport across the Bay is $15 a day in a covered lot - and they don’t bother with the “Economy Parking” sham. If you’re going to call it “Economy Parking” it should cost $10 or less a day…
And who spits out there gum on the floor at the security checkpoint?!?!?! While unpacking to go through security I discovered that some jerkwad spit their gum out on the floor at the security checkpoint… and did so right where people would have to stand WITHOUT THEIR SHOES to put their bags through the X-Ray machine…. WTF!?!?!? Yes, I did step in the fricken gum in my socks - and yes I was royally pissed about it. And no, I didn’t take up the issue with the TSA folks, instead giving them the benefit of the doubt that it wasn’t their fault.
We flew out of Dulles Airport, which we used to be very familiar with as we lived just minutes away when we were in VA. There’s been a lot of construction going on there, and in preparation for opening a new subway system some new underground walkways have opened between terminals. While it was nice to not have to cram on to one of the airport’s Mobile Lounges the new tunnel system is a bit maze like with multiple escalators up and down before getting to the terminal.
It was nice to be back in the DC area, even though I was last there in September. I think The Wife hit it right on the head, in many respects it felt like we never left. It’s been two years since we moved and it felt like we picked up right where we left off with the few people that we got to see while we were in the area. In the 6 years we lived in Virginia we made some of the best friends we’ve ever had, and in just minutes we were reminded just how great they are. It was both heartwarming and also a sad reminder of what we lost when we had to move.
