{"id":6375,"date":"2013-10-23T03:24:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T03:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2013\/10\/23\/getting-there\/"},"modified":"2013-10-23T03:24:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T03:24:09","slug":"getting-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2013\/10\/23\/getting-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting There."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nWell here we go.  If this gets a little long winded..sorry but I have been boxed in for a while.  <\/p>\n<p>\tVideo Elite, Las Vegas, Oct. 18th @ 3:30.  WOW, that sounds good.  To really appreciate what it is, I think you need to have spent time in the trenches.  Primer &#8217;08, refresher &#8217;09, missed tune up, and storm in Tunica &#8217;10, in Vegas &#8217;11 for VE &amp; family situation canceled it out.  That&#8217;s enough &quot;trenches&quot; for anyone.<\/p>\n<p>\tFor me this is not a one man operation.  Wife, Daughter (granddaughter), Father (93), and my dog, a Boston Terrier named Georgia Toots (named Toots for a VERY good reason) all got together and said..&quot;go away please.&quot;  I may have been a little CRANKY lately.  It was all a plan.  Wife just started grad school, (medical) dog just got some fire ant bites, Daughter just got a really good report card, &amp; Father has new golf cart to play with. Perfect time to go.  Booked early &amp; got perfect departure times, with window seat.  After online booking of room, decided to extend my stay if casino would comp extra days.  After I told our host my wife would not be coming this time&#8230;got one more day, &amp; a rate for last day.  She has the STARS, and I carry her bags.  OK with me.  One location for entire stay, mid strip, no moving around&#8230;again, perfect.<\/p>\n<p>\tDom had confirmed with location, BTK had sent schedule.  Excited and ready.  After packing 3x and constantly &quot;talking about it&quot; family applauded my departure.  <br \/>\n\tFrom rural East Texas to DFW is a 1 1\/2hr travel time.  Packed and loaded the night before 6am departure, wife said, &quot;oh yeah I will need the 3rd seat in the Suburban for my Nurses tomorrow. OK.&quot;  Re packed my little Red Metro Geo and said, &quot;what ever you want baby.&quot;  Outta here!<\/p>\n<p>\tBumper to bumper traffic, in the misting rain, from Eastern edge of Dallas, all the way to airport.  Not perfect, but I got there.  On line ticketing informed me, terminal D, and gate 23.  I am at airport and ON MY WAY.  Finally at terminal D and settled in to wait.  Not many people around. Hmmm.  Found a &quot;Departure&quot; screen, and my flight was to leave from terminal A, gate 14, boarding now.  SAY WHAT!  <\/p>\n<p>\tD to A @ DFW with the clock ticking.  Old guy at info booth, speaking very slowly, drew a map &amp; said I might make it.  Right now I want to apologize to the little &#8216;ol lady, and anyone else involved, BUT I really needed that power cart.  I was the last one to enter before the door closed.<\/p>\n<p>\t                                                                                                                VIVA  LAS  VEGAS<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> brothelman on October 23, 2013, 3:40 am<\/p>\n<div>Glade you made it nice to see you.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Diceman on October 23, 2013, 11:27 am<\/p>\n<div>The Diceman Cometh . . .<\/p>\n<p>\tGreat post David! I understand CRANKY. \ud83d\ude06  Being on the west side of Fort Worth, I appreciate the ride to D\/FW and the terminal changes.  \ud83d\udc7f Good luck. Maybe we can meet in Shreveport some time.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well here we go. If this gets a little long winded..sorry but I have been boxed in for a while. Video Elite, Las Vegas, Oct. 18th @ 3:30. WOW, that sounds good. To really appreciate what it is, I think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}