I just got back from a long trip: TOL-ATL-MLU, followed by a short stay and family visit at Lake D’Arbonne State Park, followed by MLU-DFW-SEA, a few days of work, and a return to the park, thence home. A few notes in no particular order:
- Whoever set up the state park at Lake D’Arbonne should get a raise. It’s beautiful: secluded, quiet, with clean, well-maintained, well-equipped cabins. Bonus points for not putting TVs in the cabins.
- It was wonderful to see my sister and my grandparents, neither of whom I get to see that often. The food and company were both great.
- Seattle consistently has the rudest TSA staff of any airport I’ve ever been in. Ruder than Detroit, ruder than Newark.
- In this month’s issue of Delta Sky, there are profiles of several Delta employees, including Phil Bartholomew. He’s the best DL flight attendant I’ve ever seen: super courteous and very much on the ball. In the same magazine, there’s a big ad from Sykes congratulating Delta on their 75 years of success. I noticed that the one reservation/ticket agent included in the profiles works for a city ticket office in Rio; I wonder how the current (and former!) US-based reservations employees feel about Sykes’ ad.
- I’ve taken probably 200 or 250 trips with a laptop since I graduated from college. I’ve left my laptop behind twice. This was one of those trips. Fortunately, I left it at the park cabin, where Mom was able to toss it in her car for her return trip to Ohio. Rookie mistake!
- Delta gets bonus points for putting a Crown Room Club in their satellite terminal at DFW, but they lose them again for having it close at 9:30pm when the last bank of flights leaves after that. C’mon, guys: if there are departing flights scheduled to leave, have the club open. It’s not that hard to figure out.
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