Traveling to Salt Lake

Traveling to Salt Lake

December 30, 2017

Hello,

Our travels to SLC started off smoothly. I encouraged Leroy to go to the bus stop earlier than needed because I did not want to miss it. We were there at least 15 minutes ahead of time which was nice to wait in the fine weather. I thought it was interesting that almost everyone on the bus had a smart phone. We are seriously getting behind the cultural norm. Leroy corrected that by buying an older IPhone. Hopefully this phone will be the perfect one just for him.

I was pleased to see the bus had a number of people on it. That helps to keep the routes up and the cost down. The transfer bus to the airport was not so populated. The bus driver had asked Leroy, who had a suitcase, if he were going to the bus station or the airport. There was another woman who asked if she was getting on the bus to the airport. When we got to the airport I talked about pulling the bell to alert the driver that we wanted to get off. Leroy did not think that was necessary. In a bit the driver had gone past the stop. I pulled the bell and he exclaimed, “I forgot!” as he pulled up to another door at the airport.

On the plane we were set to get started when the pilot said something was not functioning and he needed to restart some part of the equipment as he thought it was the computer that needed a little encouragement. Then after that was good we went out to the runway to take off when the pilot again came on and told us there was no place to park at Denver since we did not leave on time so we had to wait for another open gate. I was pleased that we did not wait very long and we were able to catch our connecting flight by walking rapidly, using the airport tram, and walking rapidly once more.

At SLC we called Miriam to let her know that we were on the ground and we would get on the train there. She told us she was doing a job only about five minutes away and she would pick us up. It all worked out just fine.

Paula