CO: Heading Home

When it was time for me to go home I had a choice of either flying out of Colorado Springs (13 hourstravel –time with 2 layovers) or out of Denver (6 hours travel-time with 1 layover.) Which ever one I didn’t choose I would get a refund on. I know it sounds like a no-brainer: to simply use Denver and the shorter time, but I like that Colorado Springs Airport is small and haven’t had any issues there like I have in Denver. In the end I chose Denver. I had to leave Colorado Springs at 1:30 am.  Since it was DIA there was a ton of walking around for no reason (from the different Southwest check-in sections to trying to find a TSA check-point that was open.) Once I found the open check-point I didn’t have any issues with the TSA. I didn’t go through the body scanner (only the metal detector) and no one checked my bare skin. I took the train to my gate. There was an annoying woman who decided to sit across from me and wanted to talk and talk (mostly about weird stuff.) I don’t know how many times I had to explain the Southwest boarding system to her. She just wasn’t “getting it” with my instructions and the little Southwest video. Sometimes you have to cut your losses and so I did and she moved on to someone else.

The flight to BWI was jammed packed, but was otherwise uneventful. When we got to Baltimore I only had to walk one gate away for my next flight. This flight was also packed-full. I sat at the window while two very large people sat in the two other seats. The guy (closest to me) couldn’t fit in his own seat and so was all over my area. Not only that but he smelled really bad. The woman (who sat by the aisle) would not stop complaining about everything and was doing so very loudly. At least it was only during the shortest leg of the trip.

We landed and I went to the baggage claim where my bag was the third one out. I then went to the parking garage to find the Jeep my dad had left. It was right where he said it was and so I was in and out of the airport within 15 minutes from landing which is very good. I also didn’t lost in the 2 roundabouts/circles while driving home (I have no idea why they use traffic circles as they are a big waste of time since no one yields – they should just use traffic lights.)