Yeah..yeah.. yeah... We got to Tampa at 1:00 for a 3 PM flight. The security line was fairly long, but, I must admit, pretty quick. Once through, we ate lunch and went to the gate. "It's gonna be late", the gate guy told me, "because it hasn't left Philadelphia yet".

Next thing, it comes in about 10 minutes early... but left a half hour late. Go figure.

Then, half way home, the pilot slows down and tells us that we are in an ATC hold for a traffic backup and are going to be delayed on landing for about 30 minutes.

Then we land at Philadelphia, taxi over near the gates, and the announcement from the pilot is that we are going to have to wait to go to the gate because of the conjestion on the ground. So we wait.

Then, we're off the plane, have carry on baggage so off to the car we go. By now, it's about 7:15 PM. We head over to the Walt Whitman Bridge into NJ... traffic is backed up starting on the Pennsylvania side of the bridge.. took us over a half hour to go 2 miles. Jeech.. genious's in the NJ DOT decide to close four lanes of a 6 lane highway, then work in the gutter lane on the right side with all four closed lanes not in use. Jeech.. Brilliant. We finally got home at about 8:45 PM.

Welcome back, ya say?

What did H.G. Wells say? "All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia." Nah.. I wanna go back to Florida!!!

How's it going, Irish?

Dick.