October 22, 2006

United Sucks but Keystone Rocks

Filed under: From The Road, Java — Nathan @ 11:05 pm

So Bryan and I had a 6:34am flight out of San Antonio to Denver this morning. Let’s just say, we were supposed to have a 6:34am flight. We get to the airport and are in the ticket line at roughly 5:35am. Cool, an hour before the flight leaves and a very early flight, no problem. Except that the only airline with a really long line…yep you guessed it, United. At just after 6:00am we finally get to the counter and the electronic kiosk won’t accept our checkin. The lady working the counter says that we can’t checkin because we weren’t at the counter 45 minutes before the flight. ?? Um, we were in line an hour before. Too late, they were understaffed and it would take too long for the TSA guys to screen our bags and we couldn’t fly without our bags (TSA regulations), so we were being bumped. Only problem, the next flight only had one seat available. So I took the 8:40am flight to Denver while Bryan took the only seat on the 12:45 flight. His flight however, was delayed out of L.A. and he didn’t leave San Antonio until 3pm or so. What a day.

The nice girl at Enterprise felt so sorry for us that she “upgraded” us to a P.T. Cruiser. What a strange and underpowered car.

Keystone is incredible though. There’s about a foot of snow on the ground and it’s about 27° outside. I took a few pictures but it was too late by the time we got here to get much of the resort. I’ll try to take more in the morning.

I can’t wait for the conference tomorrow, there are so many sessions that I think Bryan and I are going to split up and cover as much as we can.


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