You probably don’t want/need to hear about travel challenges, especially if you travel a lot but this is unusual in my experience. After getting to Oslo airport at about 9am for my 11:30am flight I got out to the gate in a reasonable time. We boarded around noon, already delayed. Right after the door shut and we were ready to take off, the pilot said the the technicians had detected a “rotation in the left engine” and we’d all have to get off. I kind of thought that those engines were supposed to rotate. This picture shows what a lot of today has been like so far.

So we’re now scheduled for a midnight departure since they refuse to cancel it and I’m on a 6:40am flight out of Newark to St. Louis tomorrow morning (we get in at 3am to Newark). We’ll see if this happens.

There’s a lot more to this story as the gate Nazi’s and other assorted cast of misfits all worked hard on creating the opposite of a good public image for their company today. I wrote it all out but lost the post when I went to publish it and the expensive wireless access here died for a minute. So, see you back in the states tomorrow (maybe).