Home from Phoenix, Home from the Airport
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canyonwalkerPhoenix travelog #4
Back home · Mon, 18 Aug 2025, 8pm
Our flight home from Phoenix on Monday left 45 minutes late due to numerous aircraft swaps. Partly to make up for it our route home from the airport was swift. That was a mood lifter because waits at the destination airport always seem 10x longer than they actually take, whether it's for checked luggage to arrive on the conveyor or for a hailed driver to appear. Well, we drove & parked out own car, so there was no waiting. There was barely even any walking....
As we came down the escalator from the gate area to baggage claim we could see our car parked outside. We were in the second row!
Partly this primo location is from choosing to drive & park in this particular lot. The cost has increased over the past few years but it's still a tad cheaper than a roundtrip Uber/Lyft ride from home. (Plus there's the schedule certainty of not wondering how long it will take for the driver to come or how many times a driver cancels & has to be reassigned.) When I parked here two weeks ago it was a 5 minute walk each way to/from the terminal. The reason we're parked so close today is because we're using Hawk's disability placard.
Back home · Mon, 18 Aug 2025, 8pm
Our flight home from Phoenix on Monday left 45 minutes late due to numerous aircraft swaps. Partly to make up for it our route home from the airport was swift. That was a mood lifter because waits at the destination airport always seem 10x longer than they actually take, whether it's for checked luggage to arrive on the conveyor or for a hailed driver to appear. Well, we drove & parked out own car, so there was no waiting. There was barely even any walking....
As we came down the escalator from the gate area to baggage claim we could see our car parked outside. We were in the second row!
Partly this primo location is from choosing to drive & park in this particular lot. The cost has increased over the past few years but it's still a tad cheaper than a roundtrip Uber/Lyft ride from home. (Plus there's the schedule certainty of not wondering how long it will take for the driver to come or how many times a driver cancels & has to be reassigned.) When I parked here two weeks ago it was a 5 minute walk each way to/from the terminal. The reason we're parked so close today is because we're using Hawk's disability placard.
