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                                                             " I wanna go too!"

                                        10.27.2018 If we holler loud and make our way*

 Hey Now! Welcome back my friends! This journey will take us on a magical, musical, 3 reel excursion. It's just me and Stretch this time. Sweet Ti once again is maintaining the abode. By the way, I do consider myself the luckiest dude on the planet to have such an awesome wifey. Thanks from the bottom of my heart Sweet Ti.

 I got a great deal on an award flight. RIC-LAS round trip for 25k miles. Only problem is I need to stay 9 days to get that price. Well, if I have to. I guess. Our host at Orleans worked with me and between both our offers, the room was covered up front. She even put a note in with the reservation letting me check in alone even though the first 3 days are in Sweet Ti's name. Should be interesting. I bid everyone farewell in the early afternoon. RIC is an hour away. I parked at ParknGo. Prepaid, and had a free day. 4.25 a day. TSA was a pain, I put my boarding passes in with my shoes. Of course they had to pat me down, and when I retrieved my stuff, my boarding passes were not to be found. I went over and asked, but they pretty much blew me off. I ended up just getting the gate to print out new ones. The flight was soon delayed. A nor'easter just passed by and is headed up the coast. My plane was coming from JFK, my layover destination. I needed nusishment and hit up Cheeburger Cheeburger. Disappointing. But I got to watch some very obedient doggies. 

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                                                                  chillin' at RIC

  I heard from Randy and Becca Jones. They are friends from our original Vegoose '05 trip. They got into Vegas a couple of days ago and are doing the whole Widespread Panic Vegas run. I am going to catch the Sunday show. Randy said they saw Leftover Salmon do a late show last night. The band played at their live club, Boathouse Live recently. The Jones partied with Vince from the band afterwards. 

            The aircraft finally arrives, and we aren't late after all. Plus I pulled off the first score of the trip. A rare treat.

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                                                                    Noice!

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                                                            Above all the thunder

 JFK Blues. Terminal change, and half of the shuttles aren't running. Plus the gates are at opposite ends of each other. 

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I finally make it and the flight is delayed. I called Sweet Ti and waited around for a bit. I finally notice the lack of company around me. There's a gate change. But only a couple over. I move and strike up a conversation with a couple of ladies. Today's locals. That's a first, finding today's locals before I even get instate. They live in Henderson. Both of them travel weekly. They spent some time recently in Vietnam. I have a friend who used to live in Vegas that is currently living in Vietnam. The aircraft finally shows up. It has been on the tarmac at JFK since 2 p.m. Just not here. We board about an hour late. I call our host to let her know. No problem. 

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 Tons o' room. The only problem is that this is a bulkhead row- the armrests are locked in place. I zoned for the 5 hour flight.

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                                                   Bob was awaiting my arrival.

 Bob is a fellow cat herder. He has us beat, we have 5- Bob has 11. Check out that limo. Bob said Bill Boyd recently was looking over the limos and told Bob to order some new 2019 Caddies. Really fancy. I thank Bob for the ride with a Jackson. Since Invited Guests is closed, I make my way to the front desk. No problem using Sweet Ti's comp. Linda has put me up in a suite. I ask for an even room, but I am informed there's only one left. Room 2051. That will work.

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                                          The Executive Suites are really just double wide regular rooms.

 The journey went well all in all. I miss my Sweet Ti. But I am determined to make the best of it. Time to get some shut eye.

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