Amtrak rocks!Jim K6JAT Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8. -------- Original message --------From: Mark J Tharp <kb7hdx@gmail.com> Date: 7/22/19 9:10 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Rick Roderick <k5ur@aol.com> Cc: arrl-odv <arrl-odv@arrl.org> Subject: [arrl-odv:28425] Re: Centenarian hams Home at 1 am West coast time. Including a ,,, wait for it,,, 2 1/2 hour delay at BDL, only to sit on the taxiway for another 40 minutes while we ran the engines at 75% throttle to burn off fuel because they put too much in, and we were overweight.... Sea-Tac had no available gates when we finally got to Seattle, and they sent a bus to the end of the runway and took us about 2 miles in and out of moving jets ( ??? ) to the terminal. I thought I was the only one but the closer to home, the more folks I found delayed. One really cool thing was while waiting at Sea-Tac, a guy asked about my shirt, ( ARRL polo) so I told him what it was, and where I had been. He has 2 neighbors who have towers in his home town, and was going to talk to them about Ham Radio. He was very interested in leaning more. Made the 12 hours in the air and in terminals prior to the conversation worth it. Glad everyone is finally home and Rick, you need to get a ride in that sled of Ria's, that is a very cool car. The darn thing even backs it's self out of a parking stall. 73, MarkKB7HDXOn Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 5:50 PM Roderick, Rick, K5UR via arrl-odv <arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> wrote: Ria, I saw what you were driving and figure you were not driving the speed limit home. Glad you made it. You know we missed a huge e-skip opening on 2 meters.... 73 Rick - K5UR -----Original Message----- From: rjairam@gmail.com <rjairam@gmail.com> To: Kristen McIntyre <kristen@alum.mit.edu> Cc: Rick Roderick <k5ur@aol.com>; arrl-odv <arrl-odv@arrl.org> Sent: Mon, Jul 22, 2019 7:30 pm Subject: Re: [arrl-odv:28421] Re: Centenarian hams My “flight” was smooth. No cops, no tickets. Straight shot down I-84. Anyone flying out tonight from New York area airports, you have my deepest sympathies. We had pelting rain like I haven’t seen in a while. Lightning too. Pretty sure LGA, EWR and JFK will be delayed for a while. Ria N2RJ On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 8:22 PM Kristen McIntyre <kristen@alum.mit.edu> wrote: It took me about the same (15.5 hours), but I had more distance to travel. Sorry about jinxing your flight :). Greg, did you make it home to Huntsville? On Jul 22, 2019, at 4:53 PM, Roderick, Rick, K5UR via arrl-odv <arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> wrote: Fred, I'm glad you raised this as I was going to but I'm just now getting to emails today. BTW, it took Holly and me 16 hours to get home. It was one of those trips that goes into the Board meeting travel chapters. And we are still looking for our luggage. (hi) -Kristen (K6WX)"Your eyes ... it's a day's work just looking into them" Laurie Anderson(--... ...-- -.. . -.- -.... .-- -..-) _______________________________________________ arrl-odv mailing list arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org https://reflector.arrl.org/mailman/listinfo/arrl-odv _______________________________________________ arrl-odv mailing list arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org https://reflector.arrl.org/mailman/listinfo/arrl-odv