So close, but yet so far…
Am sitting in Detroit Airport with about an hour and a half to go before my flight to Toronto. When I arrived at the gate, they were boarding an earlier flight to Toronto and I made an attempt to get on it. I didn’t think it could be done since the person before me looked like she was trying to do the same thing but was turned away and I thought I heard the gatekeeper say the flight was full. When I told her I didn’t have any checked baggage she asked me if I would pay the $25 change fee, but before I could say anything she looked at the screen and said she couldn’t do it, anyway, since I just missed the 30-minute gate deadline for check-in (which is what she’d have to do to get me a seat). What a letdown! She had me at “Do you have any checked baggage?” — I thought I could get home at a decent hour!
If I’d checked the board more closely I would’ve noticed the earlier flight, but the real culprit was my preoccupation with taking photos of the AirTrain that runs through the Detroit Airport:
The AirTrain is pretty quick, but it doesn’t run as often as I thought it would, considering it only goes in two directions (one train on each track). There are a total of three stations and they’re also rather far apart, so you end up spending most of the time on the people-mover, anyhow, backtracking or walking past the station.
I took photos with the Pentax K100D, but I didn’t bring my card reader or a USB cable so all I’ve got are the cameraphone pics. I have no idea exactly how many photos I took on this trip, but it’s got to be somewhere in the 500+ range, I think. At least, if I can get them all.
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