The highlight of my trip was definitely not waking up at 4:30 am. Finished packing the last things I could remember. Grabbed my CD of a German band out of my car. To my surprise, I found the PIN to my SIM card in the inside cover. So I didn’t have to buy a new German SIM card after all. ….at least not yet. Set out on the road, skies still very dark, at 5:30 am. Pit stop at an ATM and last minute essentials from Wal-Mart, and I was off for real this time at 5:50am.
Passed thru Oshkosh as the sun just began to rise sometime around 6:15. I remember thinking it would be the last time in four and a half months that I would be within a couple of miles of many of my friends …and they were likely all sleeping, without a clue I was passing thru.
Got to the Milwaukee airport sometime around 7:40, said good-bye to my mom, and lugged my bags to the check-in desk. I was told my flight would be delayed a few minutes but it wouldn’t affect my connection at all. …Of course my connection wouldn’t be affected. I had a 3 hour 45 minute layover in Philly. I just hoped to make it there in time for lunch. I made it to the gate where I watched, completely confused, as my flight initially read “on-time” after having been told of a delay. The monitor then went from “on time” to a 30 minute delay, to a 10 minute delay, and back to on-time again. The truth: expect the worst. It was the 30 minute delay. I made a few calls to Philly to let the city know I was arriving later than scheduled.
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