Attempting to find our luggage...
Anyone seen a Plaid suitcase? Somewhere in Dallas or Austin? With all of my underwear, jeans and sneakers in it? Just wondering. Dave and Rob have the same problem. Our first quest for SXSW: Clean underwear.
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posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:16 AM
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Trains, Planes and automobiles.
Austin, Texas...the most difficult place in the world to get to. What a day. We arrived at LaGuardia Airport on time, and ready to rock. Slight delay with our plane, as we heard there was some snow, in Dallas. Weird, but ok.
Our flight goes to Dallas, where we're supposed to connect to Austin. We land in Dallas, and it's snowing. Snowing pretty hard, by Dallas standards. (Which of course, made us laugh.) Until we found that 2 inches of snow SHUT THE ENTIRE AIRPORT DOWN. Connecting flight to Austin is cancelled.
Not discouraged, Giuli connected us up with American Airlines, and they booked us on a bus, to Austin. That's right. They can't get a plane off of the runway, but they can get a bus to the airport?? But, whatever - we're going to Austin.
We wait in an hour long line to find out where we're supposed to catch this bus. "Bus? This is an airport...." After several comments like this from American Airlines employees, we found a supervisor who confirmed that there was indeed a bus, that we were booked on it, and it was leaving at 9:30pm. But she didn't know where to get it. We'd have to go to the main ticketing counter, to find out.
The main ticketing counter. Can you imagine what that looked like, after the airport was shut down? More waiting, more searching for supervisors, and we're headed to "D30".
D30 is a doorway to the road in front of the ticketing area. A doorway. Not a gate. Nobody else is there. Nobody knows about a bus. We're nervous.
"Let's rent a car and drive there ourselves." So we hop a bus and head to the car rental hub.
The car rental hub....six empty counters, and two counters with about 80 or 100 people in line. Most with reservations. Everyone else says "we have no cars." A woman at Enterprise says, "well, I can get you a Mustang Shelby, but it's going to cost $209/day" Rob's eyes light up, and we agree. Wait in line. 20 minutes pass. Manager comes to counter, and confirms there's no Mustang, or any car at all.
We head to Alamo, and beg for a car. "We don't have any left." I hop on the self serve kiosk, and managed (still don't know how) to get a car reserved. Even the Alamo desk agent can't believe it - and has to come check it out. "How'd you do that?"
And, so we leave Dallas, in a rented car, for Austin. 3+ hours later, we're here. Phew.
Did I mention that we checked our bags? Tomorrow's adventure: Find our luggage!!
(See video clips and more details tomorrow, on our individual Tumblr pages.)
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posted by darryl ohrt @ 2:34 AM
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