Trip Recap
I was a little circumspect about what we were doing over the past week. My wife, the dog, and I went down to Biloxi to see my mother and grandfather.
My wife was really uncomfortable flying in the past. She did have to fly sometime earlier in the year for work. It was on one of the frequently-used, now, regional jets. National to her destination in New England. Economy in one of those is tough to say the least, but she made it, and was a little more open to flying.
Hm. Let’s see how she does in the Kmele Foster never-fly-coach method.
I also found that American has a direct flight from National to New Orleans.
Biloxi and New Orleans are about an hour and a half apart by car.
I’m kind of in a thrice-per-year visit schedule to visit my mother.
Would you like ot come? You can get to experience first class. We’ll rent a car, so getting to and rom the airport, and to various places on the Land Mass.
We were going to board the pup, but we chose to bring her, which required selecting different seats on the plane. We wouldn’t be sitting together because the dog couldn’t be sitting with us in the first row.
My wife and the dog ended up in the second row, with me on the starboard side up front.
Whatever. It was a relaxing flight.
New Orleans has a new airport. I think what they did was just built a new terminal, and are using the same runways. They’re still using the old terminal infrastructure for the rental cars, so you have to ride a bus around to the rental car facility in what was the old airport building.
The pandemic really took a toll on the rental car industry.
The company we rented the car from used to be a smaller national chain. They’re now in with a couple of other smaller national companies. They share the same queues, etc..
It’s strange.
Birthdays dinner for my grandpa, and mom were at Cafe New Orleans. As usual, the food was good. Several people I didn’t know, of course, and very few of them had met my wife.
We’ve just been away.
Some of the younger people I’d met, maybe, when they were babies.
I’ve kind of lost my focus on this.
Other notable bits:
- We ended at Waffle House a couple of times. The food was good, affordable, and always available.
- Applebee’s got a couple of visits, mainly because they’re across the parking lot from the hotel where we stayed. One night was okay. One night wasn’t great. *shrug* It’s incredible how great I would have once thought it was.
- I would say that regional jets suck, but I’m not sure they’d be big enough to even do that. The flight to New Orleans on the A319 was relaxing, even if we weren’t sitting tightener due to the late-addition of the dog, but regional jet we had going home wasn’t great.
- My wife asked if we could relocate my mother’s house up here. Um. No. It’s on a slab, hon. But it is a nice little place. There’s nothing we can do similar here near the Beltway.
- Little dog is very happy to be home.
I will be putting up bits later in the month as I remember them.
We’re home. Time to relax.