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canyonwalkerSan Antonio Travelog #1
SJC airport - Fri, 26 May 2023, 4:45pm
We're headed off to San Antonio, Texas this evening for a 3-day weekend trip. Yes, I'm back at the airport now only 48 hours after I was last here. Yes, I'm feeling run ragged by all this travel. It's not just that this trip is coming 2 days after my previous but that this trip makes 6½ trips in 6 weeks.
This travel glut led me to consider canceling this trip. While I was in Las Vegas for a trade show a few days ago I thought to myself, "I need some time to just relax." But at the same time I knew I'd be frustrated if I just loafed around home over a holiday weekend. As a wage slave in Corporate America, my time off from work is precious, and I strive to maximize the value I get from it.
Then it hit me: "I can do both!" I can take this trip and relax. ...Because this trip is mostly about relaxing! We're staying in San Antonio at a hotel on the city's elegant Riverwalk. Our plans for the next few days are to relax at a nice hotel— we spent extra to get a room with a balcony overlooking the river— tour the Riverwalk, tour the Alamo, enjoy some good food, etc.
Before we can do any of that relaxing, though, we have to get there. And the planes-trains-and-automobiles game is rarely relaxing. In fact as soon as we arrived at the airport at about 4:20 we saw:
Our flight to Las Vegas is delayed, currently by 45 minutes. Worse, our connecting flight from Vegas on to San Antonio is not delayed (yet). There's now a very real possibility we get stranded in Las Vegas overnight, lose the cost of tonight's hotel room (it's not refundable), having to find accommodations in Vegas, and losing at least part of tomorrow's vacation. We'll see.
Update: Though our departure slipped another few minutes, the fact that we bet favorable odds by booking flights with an 85 minute connection time meant that we still had time to get to our connecting flight before boarding started. How apropos to "play the odds" right in Vegas. 😅
SJC airport - Fri, 26 May 2023, 4:45pm
We're headed off to San Antonio, Texas this evening for a 3-day weekend trip. Yes, I'm back at the airport now only 48 hours after I was last here. Yes, I'm feeling run ragged by all this travel. It's not just that this trip is coming 2 days after my previous but that this trip makes 6½ trips in 6 weeks.
This travel glut led me to consider canceling this trip. While I was in Las Vegas for a trade show a few days ago I thought to myself, "I need some time to just relax." But at the same time I knew I'd be frustrated if I just loafed around home over a holiday weekend. As a wage slave in Corporate America, my time off from work is precious, and I strive to maximize the value I get from it.
Then it hit me: "I can do both!" I can take this trip and relax. ...Because this trip is mostly about relaxing! We're staying in San Antonio at a hotel on the city's elegant Riverwalk. Our plans for the next few days are to relax at a nice hotel— we spent extra to get a room with a balcony overlooking the river— tour the Riverwalk, tour the Alamo, enjoy some good food, etc.
Before we can do any of that relaxing, though, we have to get there. And the planes-trains-and-automobiles game is rarely relaxing. In fact as soon as we arrived at the airport at about 4:20 we saw:
Our flight to Las Vegas is delayed, currently by 45 minutes. Worse, our connecting flight from Vegas on to San Antonio is not delayed (yet). There's now a very real possibility we get stranded in Las Vegas overnight, lose the cost of tonight's hotel room (it's not refundable), having to find accommodations in Vegas, and losing at least part of tomorrow's vacation. We'll see.
Update: Though our departure slipped another few minutes, the fact that we bet favorable odds by booking flights with an 85 minute connection time meant that we still had time to get to our connecting flight before boarding started. How apropos to "play the odds" right in Vegas. 😅
