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Today we took Ta to the airport. She has to go back and finish up her internship in Twin Falls. Actually, we made arrangements for her to come home for her birthday a while ago but that was before she was hired for a job in the Mojave desert studying the desert tortoises. So she came for a visit and now has to go back for her last nine days.

Just so you know, always allow twice the travel time as you think you need. Her flight was scheduled to leave at 4 p.m. It takes about an hour to get to the airport so we left at 2 p.m. That leaves a good hour to get through the security and everything. Our airport is little and that is always plenty of time. Not today. Everybody and his brother and sister was traveling west from who knows where after the long weekend. But it was rush hour. They should have been going the other way. Then there were two, not just one, two four-car pile-ups on our route. One would have been do-able. We got off the freeway that was really just a glorified parking lot and detoured for a bit and got back on and then just decided to stick it out. No one was going anywhere fast. We finally got to the airport ten minutes past flight time. Oh well. We did our best.

We dropped Ta off so she could see what she could do to get back to Idaho. Da and I went to a nearby Starbucks to await her call. I like sitting in a Starbucks much better than driving around and around an airport. And why spend money on parking when you can spend it on a mocha? We were just hoping we wouldn't have to repeat the trip tomorrow.

We were very pleased to hear from Ta in half an hour. At no extra charge they put her on the next flight to Salt Lake. From there she has to go standby to Boise, which was where she had originally planned to fly. I hope that the housemate that she had arranged to pick her up will still be able to.

So Da and I drove home with everybody else and his brother but not sister. The trip home was much nicer. What should have been a just over a two hour jaunt turned into a five and a half hour ordeal. (Of course that includes a stop at In-N-Out for a burger.) Next week Da and I will drive out to Twin Falls and help her bring all her stuff home before she moves out again.