Travel Chaos

We're finally boarding a plane! 10 hours at the airport today - read on..

We started this morning with the greatest hopes for smooth travel and easy connections. Our ride picked us up on time (Thanks, D!), we checked our perfectly packed bags (exactly 50 lbs each) without a hitch, and arrived at our gate with plenty of time to get our seats changed so we would all be sitting together (instead of in 3 completely different rows). Esteban and Julien went off to buy some bottled waters, and by the time they came back to the gate area 10 minutes later all had changed! Our plane was being maintenance and needed a part that wouldn’t be available for HOURS! Needless to say, we would miss our connection to Bogota.

Once again, Delta agents have overdone themselves to help us figure out the best way to get where we need to go. After almost two hours of waiting (first in line and then with a ticketing agent), we finally are re-booked to fly on a different airline to a different hub this evening, to take a red-eye flight to Bogota that arrives at 5:00am! At least we are getting there! If the Patriots weren’t playing in Miami for Monday Night Football this week, our re-booking would have been much easier – but every flight south out of Boston is booked this afternoon and evening.

So, thanks to Delta’s hospitality, we are passing a couple of hours in the airport Hilton in Boston before we go back to the airport to FINALLY board the first leg of our flights. Hopefully, this is the biggest, first and last hitch in our Colombia adventure this time around!