You know, too many posts on this blog in the past two weeks have been about negative or disappointing things! But here's another anyway...
Husband and I had planned to fly down to Georgia for Thanksgiving with my family, leaving either today or tomorrow. A big stupid band of storms is moving in from the ocean, though, so it's not going to work out. The winds at our destination for our predicted arrival time are 17 kts gusting to 30, and the TAFs since last night have been calling for progressively lower and denser cloud layers, with PIREPs of icing in the clouds. Ignoring the low stuff and landings, we'd have had a 20-kt tailwind and the trip would be < 3 hours.
It's a really, really unhappy decision to call off that flight and accept the drive. Eight and a half hours, mostly on I-85, on a holiday. Probably in rain, too. Nightmare. Avoiding exactly this was the primary reason why I agreed that buying into 388 made sense.
But that's how it goes, right? Yeah, it's the right decision, but it's still really disappointing. The trade-off sucks.
It's the right decision... and probably obvious when you think back on the Florida folks from ten days ago.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, I've spend a few EXTRA days on vacation when I got stuck at my family's during the holiday. That could be good or bad *g*. ...owner of the 63623 JGG lawn ornament.
Better to arrive late in this life then early in the next !
ReplyDeleteHope you have a great weekend !