Dateline:Â Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, June 2009.
I have just wrapped up a long weekend visit with a great friend in Seattle who has just dropped me infront of Terminal 6 (Delta) for a flight down to LAX. I am about to get a crash course in Code Sharing between the airlines.
Dateline:Â LAX Airport for Continental Flight 1594 to Orlando
It is 7:00 a.m. and I have just arrived at the LAX Continental Terminal to start my trip back to Orlando following a four day business trip to the lovely beach side city of Santa Monica. As I enter the Check In line I am thankful that [...]
Baltimore Scanner Stops Cowboy Luke
I am in line at BWI snaking my way up to the podium to have my ID and Ticket checked. The line is long - as it is everywhere these days - and there are two TSA agents who are doing a good job of keeping it moving. A third agent [...]
Cowboy Luke Tests System at BWI
DATELINE: BWI Airport, Wednesday, June 17th
The Super Shuttle has just dropped me at the BWI Airport and I am ready to fly to Orlando after attending a Department of Homeland Security public safety communications meeting, called SAFECOM.
Since the federal government pays for the travel they require that you use their [...]
Cowboy Luke held captive during DHS show down
Dateline; Friday, June 19, 2009 Orlando International Airport.
I am sitting in the airport ticketing lobby on a conference call with one of the consulting companies that I work with. We are discussing how to organize a significant amount of technical and staffing information into a coherent report that [...]
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Why Aren’t They All Funny?
I am a frequent flyer and find myself traveling to or from somewhere at least once a month. You will likely find me on Delta, Continental or South West. When I first started flying South West, the crews were all very funny, always in a good mood and ready to play [...]
How can so much go wrong at one time?
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DATELINE:Â March 2, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada
 It is 9:45 p.m. and I am in my room at a very nice hotel in Las Vegas getting ready to iron some shirts. I am in town for a rodeo meeting and I am teaching a class tomorrow.
 I finished unpacking [...]
When it’s impossible to show them otherwise
Dateline:Â Orlando, June 17, 2008
It is 7:00 a.m. and I am pulling up to a house in Winter Park to pick up an acquaintance for breakfast. His name is Pete and he is a friend of my good friend Jim. I have not met Pete before, but the three of [...]
When Good Samaritan Efforts Do Not Work As Intended
Dateline: June 17, 2007 on Paynes Prairie, Gainesville, Florida
It is four o’clock on a Sunday afternoon and I am driving south bound on Interstate 75, heading out of Gainesville and across Paynes Prairie. I am in my 85 year old dad’s car, which I have just confiscated [...]
Why some economy airlines are no longer in business
(Dateline: September 1997 at 35,000 feet)
It is a Monday morning and I am asleep in the emergency exit row of a Delta Express jet flying from Washington DC back to Orlando. I had spent the weekend competing at a rodeo in Gaitherburg, Maryland and stayed up way [...]
Cow #40 had her baby calf the first week of June, brining the 2010 calf crop to a close. All boy calf's this year!!
