GoldenSpike
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- Mar 18, 2009
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December 26, I left on my trip in order to see the Seattle Seahawks play Green Bay at the invitation of a friend who is a season ticket holder. The way the Hawks played this year it might as well been the Lambeau Field Ice Follies.
On a clear mild day, I drove to VAN where I parked my car to take the 15-minute trip to PDX on the Talgo. There, I crossed the street to the front of Greyhound and hopped on the light-rail to the airport, off Max, up the escalator into the ticketing area. Simple as pie. This was just after the NWA incident in Detroit when the Fruit of the Loom underwear bomber-wannabe tried his stunt. I saw nothing out of the ordinary during security screening other than a female being wanded. From her appearance she likely set the alarms off due to her body piercings since her face didn’t look like she fell face-first into a fishing tackle box.
I flew to Green Bay via MSP. Enroute they announced a light snow there, so the trip gave me a chance to compare air and rail travel during snow and other weather conditions. Despite snow and ice, etc., our flight arrived in MSP without incident though other flights to/from here were delayed or cancelled. Prowling the concourses I took note this is business as usual in snow country. Mountains of foam mattresses were out in the public area free to use.
Our flight to GRB went without a hitch until we got there. I thought they were circling down to land but the altitude never changed. Looking down at the airport it was clear, but they announced they had less than the ¼-mile minimum visibility. We were going to circle until it changed. If not, we fly back to MSP along with assurances we had enough fuel (whew!). After 20 minutes of a lazy circle over Green Bay, we finally had our chance. Just before touchdown it was indeed foggy or hazy though not apparent from above.
On a clear mild day, I drove to VAN where I parked my car to take the 15-minute trip to PDX on the Talgo. There, I crossed the street to the front of Greyhound and hopped on the light-rail to the airport, off Max, up the escalator into the ticketing area. Simple as pie. This was just after the NWA incident in Detroit when the Fruit of the Loom underwear bomber-wannabe tried his stunt. I saw nothing out of the ordinary during security screening other than a female being wanded. From her appearance she likely set the alarms off due to her body piercings since her face didn’t look like she fell face-first into a fishing tackle box.
I flew to Green Bay via MSP. Enroute they announced a light snow there, so the trip gave me a chance to compare air and rail travel during snow and other weather conditions. Despite snow and ice, etc., our flight arrived in MSP without incident though other flights to/from here were delayed or cancelled. Prowling the concourses I took note this is business as usual in snow country. Mountains of foam mattresses were out in the public area free to use.
Our flight to GRB went without a hitch until we got there. I thought they were circling down to land but the altitude never changed. Looking down at the airport it was clear, but they announced they had less than the ¼-mile minimum visibility. We were going to circle until it changed. If not, we fly back to MSP along with assurances we had enough fuel (whew!). After 20 minutes of a lazy circle over Green Bay, we finally had our chance. Just before touchdown it was indeed foggy or hazy though not apparent from above.
