Its 2:14 am, just getting into our hotel room in Boston after a 75 minute taxi ride from the airport. Yes, Boston. Well, actually, Marlborough. A huge storm shut down the Boston airport in the afternoon, just before we were to take off from Toronto. The delay, including over 90 minutes on the tarmac, lasted long enough to force us to book a later flight to Amsterdam (18:55 instead of 16:57) but even that ended up being too early. The last flight of the evening out of Boston was a KLM flight that was delayed to 21:15 but we didn't quite make that one either.
We had fun trying as you can see on the video. Delta Airlines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines tried to play "He said,she said" and were sending us back and forth from terminal to terminal eating up the precious little time we had, causing us to miss the last flight too! We are now booked on the Thursday 18:55 flight to Amsterdam, so we will get to Kilimanjaro 24 hours later than planned. We aren't sure what that means for our Safari. I guess we will find out later today after Fred Otieno gets our message about the delay.
Terry spent a lot of time on the phone negotiating and cajoling without eventual success. Despite the disappointment of the missed flight, spirits are high. Hotel, food, and taxi vouchers courtesy of Delta Airlines were much appreciated! It really was an amazing day, with some excellent conversations with people from Scotland, Italy, New Hampshire, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and others.
A midnight supper of Dunkin Donuts breakfast sandwiches, oatmeal and bagels by the luggage carousel followed by the previously mentioned taxi ride ended the crazy day. . We can't wait to see what other adventures will await as we again attempt to cross the "pond."
We hope the 15 bags of luggage can keep up with us. Stay tuned!
Cut and paste the link below for a short video clip
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ndHqPLjXufT6Luku8
We had fun trying as you can see on the video. Delta Airlines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines tried to play "He said,she said" and were sending us back and forth from terminal to terminal eating up the precious little time we had, causing us to miss the last flight too! We are now booked on the Thursday 18:55 flight to Amsterdam, so we will get to Kilimanjaro 24 hours later than planned. We aren't sure what that means for our Safari. I guess we will find out later today after Fred Otieno gets our message about the delay.
Terry spent a lot of time on the phone negotiating and cajoling without eventual success. Despite the disappointment of the missed flight, spirits are high. Hotel, food, and taxi vouchers courtesy of Delta Airlines were much appreciated! It really was an amazing day, with some excellent conversations with people from Scotland, Italy, New Hampshire, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and others.
A midnight supper of Dunkin Donuts breakfast sandwiches, oatmeal and bagels by the luggage carousel followed by the previously mentioned taxi ride ended the crazy day. . We can't wait to see what other adventures will await as we again attempt to cross the "pond."
We hope the 15 bags of luggage can keep up with us. Stay tuned!
Cut and paste the link below for a short video clip
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ndHqPLjXufT6Luku8