Two weeks ago, some friends of mine on Facebook were lamenting the fact that
they only made it halfway across the country before they had to get stuck in
the Chicago Airport (which by the way is a thing that happens). They were gonna
miss their important party that they were going to which was two days later
on the East Coast there was absolutely no way that they could possibly make it
and they were turning around and flying all the way back to LA when you're a
consultant that's not the way that you attacked the travel world my craziest
story of 2018 was coming up against a situation that looked truly impossible
and figuring out every single way that I could make it happen
it was a fated night in Dallas in September and I needed to get that
evening from Dallas to norc's I mean I had an event the whole day in Dallas and
of course at about 5:00 p.m. right as the event was ending a thunderstorm
rolled in and initially it seemed to be just a little thunderstorm then planes
that weren't coming in who got diverted and there was just a whole mess in the
entire system and for five hours they pushed the flight and push the fight and
push the flight and didn't cancel it and finally at about 10:00 p.m. they
canceled my flight it was such a disheartening situation so I was sitting
there at about 10 p.m. the next morning at 9:00 a.m. I had another event in New
York and I had to teach all day long and there is no way that you can drive from
Dallas to Newark at one point my colleagues looked at me and said hey
should we write to our people our contacts for tomorrow and let them know
that we're not gonna be able to make it or maybe we can get an early flight out
but we're gonna only make it at X time I look at him with a look of disbelief
like what not there is no way that we have exhausted all of our efforts right
now what we did was we went and we stood in front of the board of all the flights
there are two airports in Dallas we could have gone to the other network but
we just figured better to stay at the airport where are we through security
let's just figure out any fight that we keep a lot and so we looked at any
flight that was going anywhere within four to five hours of
city he went to the front desk and got somebody to rebook me on a plate to the
Baltimore we left on the flight to Baltimore and about 11:30 we landed very
late and we basically landed almost right three o'clock there were almost no
services at the airport and I made a run for the only way that I could think of
to get to New York that morning which was the Train so I took a cab from the
airport to the Train and took the 3:30 a.m. train from Baltimore although it's
I was really excited about this and I passed out completely on the train set
my alarm for when the train was supposed to man to New York - about a half an
hour so I would think I wouldn't miss it and at the time that my own horn went
off I wake up to announcements coming over that the tunnel into New York has
been shut down and there were maintenance issues on the Amtrak lines
there was no way that we could actually get into the city so here I was stranded
in Newark and not able to get into the city and at this point I was so tired
and so delirious that the only thing I knew that I needed was a shower so I
figured out the quickest way to get me to the downtown area of the city where a
couple of hotels were was just to take a path train so different paths train into
the city I called the hotel that we had cancelled from the night before because
we weren't gonna make it into the city and asked them if they had a spa and I
was able to get into the hotel take a shower and make it to my event by a 25
so with basically two hours of sleep on the train only and a freshening up of a
shower but a tremendously long travel day we did make it from Dallas. It was
the craziest travel story of the year, but it reminded me that consultants are
really in the top 1% of the world in terms of travelers and their ability to
get from one place to another. We're also slightly insane, I mean taking
that trip was just totally nuts! If you have a great travel story from 2018 I
would love to hear it, and if you ever have questions about how to work the
travel system and you want to talk about those, than we love to chat about that
too. so please comment on this video
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