Thursday, October 9, 2003
Our plane was unable to land in Dominica due to poor weather conditions. And let me express what I mean by poor weather conditions: Raining slightly. This is a major downer and it's no one's fault. I find myself concerned about hotels and money and food all over again. We couldn't even get off the plane. Guadalupe is a French Territory and there evidently some people aboard who were not allowed to get off of the plane. So the entire plane was quarantined. I had to sit on one of the most uncomfortable planes that I have been on in my entire life. I felt like a prisoner. We were instructed "do not leave this plane." The French Authorities were there to make sure we didn't. Maybe I'm over dramatic but, we couldn't leave the plane. I have never had an experience like this in all the years that I've flown. I will be staying the night in San Juan and will hopefully try again tomorrow. If I don't get there tomorrow I don't know what I'm going to do. I will wait until I get on the ground to see what AA is going to do for us. I expect to be put up in a hotel and receive some sort of compensation for the meals that I'm going to have to eat while I'm in San Juan for yet another night. I don't know what time we took off so I can't guess how long we've been in the air, but I imagine that we should be in San Juan bye 7:30 at the latest. There are some people on the plane that I've made friends with and if we all end up in the same hotel maybe we can get together. Even the people of Dominica are hacked off. I talked to a local today who gave me great insight. Right now, I just want to get off of this air plane. I want to be on the ground, I want to walk, and I want a comfortable AMERICAN like hotel where I can stay. I hope no one gets in my way at the airport. I hear that AA is pretty good about these things. Encouraging news, my new friend from Dominica fully expects this system to be moved out by the time we leave tomorrow, in-fact, he assumed that it would be gone today. However, it wasn't it seems to have lingered. If there are no hotel concessions I'm going to bunk up with some friends and we can split the cost of the room. About now the only thing that I fully expect is for AA to get us back tomorrow. I'm not much looking forward to going through all the rigga-ma-ro of getting through customs and airport security. This journal writing is really helping me. So is Debussy, and I'm about to call in Maler.
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