New England Business Trip

As there is always something that happens on our business trips, I didn't expect this one to be any different. I wasn't disappointed.

About 9:30 p.m. the night before, our scheduled 6:50 a.m. US Airways flight from CVG to New Hampshire (through Philadelphia) on Wednesday was canceled. As they were not able to get us on another flight that would get us to NH in time for our meeting, we canceled that leg and took a flight (through Philly) to Portland, ME. I didn't sleep much that night as I came down with something. I'm still not sure what it is, but here it is a week later and my head is still spinning.

Our flights there were fine, but I stayed the entire evening/night in my room vegging/sleeping...trying to get up some strength for our meetings on Thursday.

Thursday morning arrived and I felt a little better. We drove up to our meeting, but my partner typed in Augusta, ME in the GPS in lieu of Gardiner, ME (which I told him) and, instead of being early, were about a half-hour late. The meeting went really well, though, and we headed to Boston for meeting number two.

Along the way, we stopped at a nice restaurant in Maine and were nearly poisoned by some nasty stuffed mushrooms. The chef even acknowledged something wasn't right.

We arrived in Boston for our next meeting and there were some interesting individuals in our meeting, one of which I thought was going to sprout fangs and fly around the room (a dude with one-inch finger nails filed to a point on each finger, a bright blue blazer, and long hair combed back).

After the meeting, we went back to the hotel to check in and change. I said I was willing to try to to go out to dinner with the team, but I didn't want to stay out too late. We drove around Boston for an hour, just to end up back at the hotel, where they ate and I went to my room to veg and sleep some more.

We met in the lobby at 5:00 a.m. on Friday to catch our 7:15 a.m. US Airways flight back to CVG (though Philly). At 5:30 a.m. at Logan Airport, we were advised our flight was cancelled (just a warning for anyone that wants to fly US Air...that is two now in two days). They were able to get us on a Delta flight later that morning that took us directly to CVG, which ended up getting us in earlier than we planned.

Oh, one more thing, Heather called me at 7:04 a.m. and said that US Airways just called to tell me my 7:15 a.m. flight had been cancelled. That's right, they not only called 11 minutes before the flight was to take off, but they called my number in CINCINNATI (Cleves) to tell me my flight from BOSTON was being canceled. Quality!

We go again on Monday to Oregon and Idaho. I'm sure I'll be writing something about that soon.