{"id":195,"date":"2010-10-03T00:28:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T05:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adster.net\/blog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2010-10-03T00:28:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T05:28:25","slug":"day-24-delayed-in-portland-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.adster.net\/blog\/day-24-delayed-in-portland-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 24 – Delayed in Portland, Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/fb:like>

Costa Rica was great, but it was now time for a little change of pace: a\u00a0lobster\u00a0lunch in Portland, Maine. Yes, I said lunch because I setup my flights to arrive at 11AM and leave at 3:30PM, just enough time for a nice lobster lunch. Mother nature, however, had a different plan for me.<\/p>\n

While I was in Costa Rica, a small tropical storm has formed just south of Florida. It had made its way up the east coast and eventually to Portland, Maine, that’s the backstory.<\/p>\n

When I landed in Maine, I got a phone call from JetBlue telling me my afternoon flight was cancelled.<\/p>\n

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Cancelled!<\/p><\/div>\n

They said that New York was expecting bad weather and it was a precaution. The earliest they could get me out was at 3:30PM the next day. This was unacceptable to me because I was set to go to Washington DC by the end of the night and I had already paid for my hotel room, so I started looking for a flight from another airline. I thought to myself, “all you need to go is get to New York, and you can make your connecting flight to DC” so I bought a flight from US Air that was scheduled to leave around the same time as my cancelled flight. All I can do was hope.<\/p>\n

With my entire evening resting in the hands of fate, I took a taxi to the wharf district of Portland to get some fresh steamed lobster. I had done a lot of research on where to go, and I decided on a local’s hang out place called The Porthole.<\/p>\n

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Porthole Restaurant in Portland, Maine<\/p><\/div>\n

I sat down and ordered their 1.5 pound steamer.<\/p>\n

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Delicious Lobster<\/p><\/div>\n

I finished every last bit of it, but I was still hungry. The server asked if I wanted anything else, so I said “Hell, bring me another lobster!” Hey, you only live once.<\/p>\n

After lunch I took a taxi back to the airport where I saw my new US Air flight was delayed 15 minutes. Ok, I can deal with that. Well, over the next several hours the US Air flight kept getting progressively more delayed until it was ultimately cancelled. *sigh* My grand master plan of trying to make it to Washing DC by nightfall had failed.<\/p>\n

Luckily the US Air flight was canceled due to a mechanical, which means the airline is forced to put me up in a hotel and give me food vouchers. What did I buy with the food vouchers?<\/p>\n

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These were compliments of US Air!<\/p><\/div>\n

Two more lobsters! That brings my grand total of lobsters to 4 for the day. Four lobsters is not too shabby if I do say so myself.<\/p>\n

I left at 6:45AM the next morning to continue my journey. Sure I had a little bit of a hiccup in my schedule, but I realized that I hadn’t had a problem up until now, so I\u00a0considered\u00a0myself lucky. Next up, Washington DC!<\/strong><\/p>\n