Overslept!
Hopefully day 1 would not be an indicator of how my trip would go :(
I woke up 10 minutes after my flight was supposed to leave!
In any event, we started heading to the airport immediately. Joce convinced me to call the airline… I didn’t want to, hoping to just get there. Actually, I think it was because I wanted to delay telling anyone I’d missed my plane. I try to be responsible, but I guess sometimes we all make mistakes.
In any event, the airline was very helpful, booking me on the next flight to St. Paul and the connector to Kalispell. I spent 3 hours doing homework at Reagan before we left.
I had an 8 hour layover in St. Paul! There are, after all, only two flights into Kalispell daily.
I wandered that mammoth airport for about an hour before I decided to see if I could do any sight-seeing.
There was a train that headed downtown to Minneapolis and I headed down there to get dinner and see the town.
Big buildings and a good cheeseburger, that’s just about what I got out of that visit… My goal is to get away from the city life.
I had about two hours left at the airport. I meet the coolest old-timer who had lived in Kalispell for the past 25 years. He gave me all kinds of tips on places to go, see, eat. I’ll try to stay in touch with him.
I arrived in Kalispell at about midnight. It was 2 am before I found a Super 8 in Whitefish (just north of Kalispell) with a room. $41 after tax… sweet!
Bill