The Flight
That was mostly uneventful. I was delayed coming out of Kansai a few hours. Lightening had struck the airplane a before it landed and it took them a few hours to do all the necessary maintenance checks to make sure everything was working properly. I was concerned that it would mess up my connections but it didn't because I originally had a three hour layover in San Francisco.
I sat next to a fellow gaijin. We didn't talk much on the way. We both tried to get a fair amount of sleep. He was friendly though. He and his wife are doing the same thing that Brenda and I are doing. He is teaching English part time and his wife is teaching full time. They don't have kids and his Japanese is horrible.
On the jump from SFO to COS I sat by a fellow conferee, Gretchen Ricker. She is also the administrator for The Christian Writer's Forum. What a coincidence. I pegged her by the Grammar for Dummies book on her lap. I asked her why she was going to Colorado Springs and we chatted happily for the next few hours.
It was snowing when I arrived in Colorado Springs. Everything was in order though. My car was ready for me. I found my way to the Inn after a stop at a Carls Junior. It got dark and I skidded in the snow a few times.
As bed and breakfasts go this one struck me as unusual. The innkeepers don't stay on the premises and neither are the owners the innkeepers. There was an envelope taped to the door with my key in it. It was kind of impersonal. My room was nice but very cold. It was equipped with all the niceties of a hotel room though. There was a phone, Cable TV, VCR and wireless Internet. I thought that was odd for a B&B. It was convenient for me so I won't complain too loudly. This was my room.
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