Missed Connections and Making Nairobi

To the lovely lady at West Jet who was so kind to me. She dialed my travel agent and the flight company; held a seat so I could fly Nanaimo to Calgary. When your flight is noon in Vancouver the options are: 1. Take a 5:30am ferry and bus and skytrain with a bunch of bags; 2. Take a flight from Nanaimo to Vancouver with lots of time to spare.

But there's no way to plan for rain storms and 65 km/hour winds. The earliest they could get me on a flight would have me landing in Vancouver at 11am. Not going to make the flight. But I re-booked and headed straight to Calgary to catch my next flight to Amsterdam and when I checked in, it was like I never missed that flight.

Rose out of rainy Nanaimo to rainbows and turbulence. Then floated weightless on a bed of clouds. Rollercoaster landed in Calgary; white-knuckling the seat in front while we rocked and tilted. The guy beside me said this was his second worst flight. They dropped 100 feet straight down in his first.

https://blog.klm.com/assembling-the-boeing-787-dreamliner/

Three flights, 24 hours, five movies and an 11-hour time difference from home; I'm here and well. Watch out Nairobi, here I come!