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Lee Butler
Member
Username: Leebutler
Post Number: 31
Registered: 06-2003
Posted From: 75.8.83.13
| | Posted on Sunday, March 21, 2010 - 01:29 am: | |
You've found the secret, Timothy. It's not only for the travel and sites you see, it's for the many fellow travelers you meet along the way. |
John D.
Moderator
Username: John_d
Post Number: 4144
Registered: 06-2003
Posted From: 95.208.80.143
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2010 - 04:50 am: | |
Tim, looks like you experienced the good and the bad on your first trip! Just so you know - it could have been worse! |
Timothy Broyles
New member
Username: Designguy
Post Number: 1
Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 98.213.114.186
| | Posted on Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 03:14 am: | |
So for my first post active duty Space-A I decided to take a trip to Europe. I didn't care where, and figured that out of Dover I'd have the best shot. It ended up not being so easy to get out, even though I was by myself with an open itinerary. I arrived at Dover on Sunday afternoon, the 7th of March. 2 flights to Ramstein, 1 to Spangdahlem and 1 to Rota were showing so I thought I was in luck. Well, by 2300 I was taking a lift from some wonderful fellow Space-A'ers to the AF Lodge at Dover (great hotel by the way). Monday would bring hope and then heartache when I caught a C-5 to Rota that evening, only to have a cracked windshield force us back to Dover 2 hours after takeoff. Tuesday afternoon, however, brought an open flight to Mildenhall, so I hopped aboard the C-17, fully loaded with cargo and Air Force personnel TDYing there. After a quick jaunt across western Europe (bus from Mildenhall to London to Brussels, train to Amsterdam to Frankfurt to Frankfurt-Hahn, shuttle to Ramstein), I had a much easier time getting home. I caught a C-17 to Charleston, and was the only PAX on a C-17 from Charleston to Andrews, with plenty of time to get to BWI to catch my civilian flight home.
All in all an exhausting and fun trip, I was disheartened by Space-A to begin with, but my faith was returned with the ease of my return home. I have to say the other veteran Space-A people were a huge help, and great company. I couldn't have asked for a nicer group of people to be stuck in Dover with, and on flights. I've got phone numbers of people now offering rides if I'm in Rota, invitations to come visit in other spots, all after only a couple days of knowing them. They say the journey is sometimes as good as the destination, and this is definitely one of those cases. Thanks to guys and gals that keep the flight info going too, by the way, and all the ground transport advice, etc. |
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