Stolen Moments (2005)
“In fact, my idea of traveling is a first-class seat on a nonstop flight with an Airfone and power source at every seat. Then, while a flight attendant silently and efficiently brings me endless cups of coffee and occasional sustenance, I can work on my computer. With my headphones on and a selection of instrumentals on my iPod creating a false but comforting sense of isolation, I can lose myself for hours.
That had been my intention until ten hours ago, when the arrival of an unexpected and dec...idedly unseasonable blizzard in the Ohio Valley grounded every flight going in and out of anywhere for five hundred miles in every direction. To make matters worse, it was already late on Friday afternoon of the holiday weekend when the word came that all flights were canceled, and I couldn’t get another one for at least forty-eight hours. By then, the holiday would have passed.
So there I was, along with a hundred other people, sandwiched into an Amtrak coach car designed to hold two-thirds that number.MoreLess
That had been my intention until ten hours ago, when the arrival of an unexpected and dec...idedly unseasonable blizzard in the Ohio Valley grounded every flight going in and out of anywhere for five hundred miles in every direction. To make matters worse, it was already late on Friday afternoon of the holiday weekend when the word came that all flights were canceled, and I couldn’t get another one for at least forty-eight hours. By then, the holiday would have passed.
So there I was, along with a hundred other people, sandwiched into an Amtrak coach car designed to hold two-thirds that number.MoreLess
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