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<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wednesday. June 29, 2016 And We\u2019re Off to Vancouver and Alaska: Our departure from Southport, Connecticut, was a bit unusual this year. Instead of the convoluted journey we usually undertake to one of the New York City airports, this time Chriselle, who happened to have arrived from California to spend a week with… <\/p>\n
\nfrom Southport, Connecticut, was a bit unusual this year. Instead of the
\nconvoluted journey we usually undertake to one of the New York City airports,
\nthis time Chriselle, who happened to have arrived from California to spend a
\nweek with her cousins, Arav and Anaya in our absence, gave us a ride to La
\nGuardia Airport where our summer travels began. As Llew and I were utilizing
\nFrequent Flyer Miles on American Airlines to get to Vancouver where our trip
\nwould begin, we ended up taking different flights with the intention of
\narriving on the West Coast of Canada within an hour of each other.
\nthe best-laid plans of mice and men\u2026go awry, of course. Llew\u2019s flight to
\nDetroit from where he was to make a connection to Vancouver got delayed and,
\nlong story short, he was put on another flight to Dallas and eventually reached
\nVancouver an hour after I did\u2014but minus his baggage. My own three flights that
\neventually got me to Vancouver went without hitch. I enjoyed First Class
\nservice on all three sectors, picked up a pizza from Wolfgang Puck Express<\/i> at Indianapolis, had a super interesting
\ncompanion on the leg from Indianapolis to Los Angeles so that time flew by most
\npleasantly as I marveled at the scenery of the world beneath my window while we
\nflew northward along the Pacific Coast from LA to Vancouver where the sea was
\npunctuated by islands burnished gold by the a swiftly setting sun.
\nmade contact with Llew, it was past midnight and the two of us kept fingers
\ncrossed as his checked-in bag had not reached (because it was somewhere in
\nDetroit). The airline assured us that we would receive it at our hotel in
\nWhistler and recommended that he do some shopping for the next 24 hours as all
\nhe had were the clothes on his back! Dear, oh dear. Not the most providential
\nway to start a much-anticipated trip\u2014but we are seasoned travelers who know how
\nto take all sorts of situations in our stride. So without batting an eyelid, we
\nsimply hailed a cab and proceeded to our hotel (the Travelodge at Vancouver
\nairport) as we had missed the last free shuttle for the day.
\nto say, we merely hit the hotel when the two of us passed out for the night.<\/span><\/div>\n