arrived in Detroit
Mar. 16th, 2008 08:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dagibbsFlight went smoothly, had dinner with elizilla, then found my hotel without problem.
DTW makes the luggage handling at Ottawa international really embarrassing. I walked quickly to the luggage carousel, and yet my luggage was still already there by the time I got to the luggage carousel. And this isn't the first time that has happened in Detroit. In Ottawa, we will clear the plane, wait for customs lineup and then still wait for an extended time (20 minutes tends to be short) for the luggage to appear. I really don't understand why Ottawa is so consistently horribly slow.
And, at the car rental, the first vehicle they offered was a PT Cruiser -- which I don't like, so I asked for "a sedan" of some sort... the person said they had a Mazda (and I've had a couple nice Mazdas previously) so I said sure, only to discover they had a Mazda 5, a (small) mini-van. Doh! I didn't feel like walking back in and lining up and fighting for another car, so that's what I've got. Oh well. At least I won't be doing the amount of driving I was down in New Mexico.
DTW makes the luggage handling at Ottawa international really embarrassing. I walked quickly to the luggage carousel, and yet my luggage was still already there by the time I got to the luggage carousel. And this isn't the first time that has happened in Detroit. In Ottawa, we will clear the plane, wait for customs lineup and then still wait for an extended time (20 minutes tends to be short) for the luggage to appear. I really don't understand why Ottawa is so consistently horribly slow.
And, at the car rental, the first vehicle they offered was a PT Cruiser -- which I don't like, so I asked for "a sedan" of some sort... the person said they had a Mazda (and I've had a couple nice Mazdas previously) so I said sure, only to discover they had a Mazda 5, a (small) mini-van. Doh! I didn't feel like walking back in and lining up and fighting for another car, so that's what I've got. Oh well. At least I won't be doing the amount of driving I was down in New Mexico.
