On the Way Again

The Idaho Falls Regional Airport is much nicer and very much busier than
the Pocatello airport! I’m in the IFA airport waiting for my 8:15 flight to
Minneapolis. From there I’m flying to Amsterdam and driving to Belgium. I’m
here plenty early! If I do this routing in the future, I’ll get to the
airport about now (7:15 am) rather than today’s arrival of 6:00 am. The
airport waiting area is comfortable and wifi is available throughout the
airport. It’s clear to me why Idaho Falls wouldn’t want to give up their
airport for a more central (to Pocatello) regional airport.

It has been a very busy past couple of weeks. We had lots of fun with
children and grandchildren over the 4th of July weekend. Jim and family
were the last to leave and should be back home tomorrow.

Talking and telling stories around the dinner table provided good
entertainment. Sunday evening, July 3rd, mom and dad came over from Soda
Springs for dinner. I turned on my iRiver and got quite a bit of audio. I’m
not quite done slicing and dicing the audio, but when it’s done, I’ll post
the stories on this blog.

This airport has flights to Salt Lake City, Boise, Portland, Pocatello
(!!), Minneapolis, and Cincinnati. That last is interesting. I think that
Delta nay have some flights to Europe out of Cincinnati. That’s worth
checking out.

We missed trash day on the Tuesday after the Monday holiday. Rather than
slipping the trash pickup by one day (as was usual in Colorado Springs), I
guess they work overtime in Pocatello and keep the schedule. So we had an
overabundance of trash. Jim’s car still wasn’t fixed on Tuesday so we took
the motorhome and most of the visiting grandkids, drove over to Logan, and
picked up Jim, LeeAnn and family (his car was finally fixed on Wednesday).
While we were gone, Heather and Jaelene packed Jaelene’s rental car full of
trash and garbage sacks and took them to various dumpsters around town to
relieve the trash situation. One of the bags must have been leaking as it
took the two girls another two days with carpet cleaners, fabric sprays,
and elbow grease to get the sickening smell out of the car. Rental cars
sure do take a lot of abuse!

When our travel agency was making the flight arrangements for thus trip
they proposed the following itinerary:

Pocatello to Boise
Boise to Seattle
Seattle to Vancouver, British Columbia
Spend the night
Vancouver to London’s Heathrow
London to Brussels

Return was the opposite schedule, including the night’s stay in Vancouver.
All of that for $5300. I said no and told the agency to check flights
through idaho Falls and Minneapolis. They found this routing for $4950. Big
difference in cost and schedule!

It’s time to board.

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