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SITREP
I did NOT want to be here. I kept wondering, "Where is Mr. Rogers? This is NOT my neighborhood!!!"
THE SETUP
I was on a Spokane to Sacramento trip...BY WAY OF FUC'n PHOENIX! "Way to add 5 hours to a 2 hour flight, SouthWest!" But it's kinda hard to blame the lovely Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport that turn of events.
[And in the end, it was even hard to get angry at SouthWest since they DID have the courtesy to take us right smack over the top of the Grand Canyon - a sight I'd never seen before - so THAT in itself was an ironic treat. "Hey Mom! Yeah, I know I was going to Sacramento, BUT guess what? I saw the Grand Canyon too!" Now THAT doesn't happen every day.]
AIRPORT METRICS
Sky Harbor is such a beautiful, large airport, with lots of different terminals, lots of different automatic walkways, and - get this - LOTS of Laptop Bar & Stool set-ups. During my 2 1/2 hour layover, where I also switched planes, I got to charge my laptop, my camera, my iPhone, and my external battery charger: I was set!
WIFI
Free! That's all I need to say! I was able to connect quickly and upload all of those pictures I had just taken of the grand canyon to Flickr, Yelp and Facebook. I also did some blogging to boot.
IN SUM
I have no idea what the traffic was like to get to the airport... since I landed there.
I have no idea what the parking situation was like at the airport... since I landed there.
I have no idea what the TSA Checkpoint situation is like at this airport since....yeah, you guessed it, I LANDED there.
But you know what? As a guest of the airport who galavorted from one terminal to another terminal as a transfer to catch my next flight, it was not a bad deal.
THE LOWDOWN
The Sky Harbor Airport makes for a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
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