Road Trip 2016

4 Aug

Yesterday we flew to St Louis so that Helen and my sister Bobbi could attend their Younique convention. I hadn’t really given our flight out much thought, thinking we would just fly there and after her convention begin a 3 1/2 week roadtrip up through New England.

All was fine on our first leg from San Luis Obispo to Phoenix, except for the having to get up at 4 in the morning to catch a 6:15 flight. We made it to Phoenix and our 8:54 flight had been delayed until 9:30, then 10:30, and finally 11:30. So our 50 minute layover was extended to 3 hours. That in and of itself wasn’t too bad, but when I realized that a significant portion of the passenger manifest was filled with Younique conventioneers, it made the layover a little more disturbing as they all began talking about ther uplines and yada, yada, yada. Fortunately I was so tired I fell asleep and when I woke up the youniquers around us had moved on. Also being in first class, I was nowhere near them as we flew to St. Louis. So a rather peaceful flight once we took off in our really old A320 aircraft.

When we arrived we collected our bags in the normal fashion, 2 bags showed up immediatley and 1 bag took forever, and headed off to pick up the rental car. I thought it was great that I had just gotten notice that Avis had upgraded me to a Cadillac XTS, what a great way for us to road trip! So we took the shuttle bus over to avis and the driver kindly dropped us off right in front of our car. We put the bags at the trunk and I popped open the door to get the keys and release the trunk. So I looked in the cupholder, the glovebox and the armrest storage, no key. I did find the Avis sheet that said it was my car, I guess they just didn’t want me driving it. Fortunately as a Presidents club member I was able to just pick a different car and change it as I drove off. So now we will be roadtripping in a Lincold MKS, Mathew McConaughey would be pleased.

This is my second trip to the city, with time to sightsee, so there isn’t much I want to see. Although we did go to the Gateway arch and rode to the top. Went at night which was pretty cool. Unfortunately there is a lot of construction going on which sort of ruins the visual effect at ground level.