{"id":747,"date":"2006-11-27T12:33:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T16:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/11\/27\/surviving-thanksgiving-weekend-travel\/"},"modified":"2006-12-01T21:30:08","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T01:30:08","slug":"surviving-thanksgiving-weekend-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/11\/27\/surviving-thanksgiving-weekend-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving Thanksgiving Weekend Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several people told me that traveling on the Sunday after Thanksgiving would suck; no parking, long lines to check in, even longer lines for security, and of course delays.\u00a0 With much trepidation I decided that I would allow myself four hours for an international flight, which of course meant that I breezed in and out of check in and security in a matter of minutes; quickest ever for a flight.<\/p>\n<p>Of course hanging around an airport, especially the ATL airport, is not much fun.\u00a0 With a ton of time on my hands, I found a beer (or two) with a TV playing the Falcons game, and proceeded to waste the afternoon away.\u00a0 The beer was OK (colds and beer do not go hand-in-hand), but the Falcons game sucked.\u00a0 Man, the Falcons look bad.<\/p>\n<p>Onto the flight.\u00a0 Once we boarded, we sat and sat and sat.\u00a0 I guess that was to make up for the less than two minute security lines.\u00a0 Apparently the crew had to \u2018shift\u2019 around some luggage to \u2018balance\u2019 the plane; not something you want to hear before a flight.\u00a0 After we made it in the air, I actually slept.\u00a0 That was a first for me, I never sleep on planes.\u00a0 I doubt it was the beer, must have been the cold.<\/p>\n<p>As for PSP time, I really didn\u2019t have any, considering I slept off and on the majority of the flight.\u00a0 Prior to landing, I did fire up Madden and while the game did not freeze on me, it did some super squirrelly thing where the players went into warp drive and I resumed from a brief pause\/freeze period.\u00a0 This happened twice, resulting in me starting over the game twice.\u00a0 Hmmm \u2026 not good.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of not good, it is not even 4:30PM in London, and it is already night.\u00a0 Started getting dark around 3:45PM or so.\u00a0 Not sure if I could ever get use to night so early.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people told me that traveling on the Sunday after Thanksgiving would suck; 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