Speaking of Segways, did you see the Segway tours of Washington? I spotted at least three, in a city that during the two months out of the year (May and October) when the weather is nice, is one of the more walkable places I’ve ever lived. And they all had helmets. Probably necessary, but I’m afraid that the phrase “dorks on parade” also occurred to me…

I see you’ve since gotten C&I up, and I look forward to reading it.

I do remember once, going to Midwinter in San Antonio with a morning connection in DFW, library people who had been there all night (in the airport or a hotel) because weather prevented them from getting out the previous day.

It’s too bad about the weather problems in DFW and American’s problems given that ground personnel have been cut back to the bone (although I appreciate that they do need to at least break even, and are the only major American airline never to go bankrupt). The new Terminal D is a lovely thing, with better design, much better restaurants (and a nice variety of them), and a generally sleeker feel than the A, C, and half of B terminals. And the new Skylink connection is impressive. And most American personnel were as helpful as they could possibly be and, of course, were “in this all together” with us. But a few were surly to bed, surly to rise… I’m not sure who to blame for the insistence of some passengers for holding literally hour-long seminars on every possible way to get to California on every combination if airlines, while nobody else can get to the service desk. And I do mean literally hour-long at one point.

(That’s where I got stuck trying to get home from San Antonio. V. similar story, right down to the timing, as you noted.)

Glad you made it back in one piece. Er, as many pieces as you plus baggage accounts for, anyway.