Monday, August 18, 2025 – Hellacious Day of Travel!

Hi Darlin'!
And I thought I was exhausted yesterday! Whew, what a day! I woke up at 3:30 in the morning and couldn't get back to sleep, so finally got up around 5:00, had breakfast and finished packing, and was ready to go at 6:30. I relatively uneventful trip to the Philly airport (other than not being able to go over a bridge because it wasn't wide enough for my dually!), and the United flight to Denver went without a hitch. Very nice first class service, which turned out to be the only good thing that happened today. I had a 3.5 hour layover, then the flight got delay, and delayed again, then delayed again, then reverse delayed (less delayed?), then delayed again... Well, you get the idea. Apparently the reason was because they didn't have a pilot. Three more hours of layover added to my already longer than usual time. Finally got off the ground at 7:15 (original time of ARRIVAL was 5:22!), arrived at 8:45, gathered my luggage, and then one of the other passengers who was local offered to drop me and another lady off at the hotel I had reserved, which was a relief because there were no taxis and Lyft was supposedly 20 minutes out, if they would come at all. Finally got settled into the hotel, walked over to Albertsons to pick up a couple of things, was all set to take a hot bath, but discovered they had no drain plug, so I took a a hot shower instead (my last for at least 12 days!), put my email on vacation hold, am writing this post, and now, I'm going to bed! Hoping for a good seven hours of sleep! Will be journaling the old fashioned way for awhile, will get this diary caught up when I get back, with LOTS of pix! Good night, babe! Love you!

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