42 missed flight

this is how things can go wrong: i missed my flight from miami to boston due to several delays on my last day on the florida sunshine

we had to pick up that irish lady who was still in her room when we arrived at her hotel. at that time i did not want to be too harsch on her because she had been alone for three nights in that hotel. after her not tipping me much, i wish i had shouted at her and pulled her by the hair to the bus. anyways... we left late in orlando

i got a new driver who was not at all experienced and it showed right away. while i was blablabla-ing with the pax he took the wrong exit and drover north of orlando iso east. i found out after a while and asked him what he was doing. he did not listen to any of the directions that i gave until i had to raise my voice. which is very unusual for me. but i had to.. we arrived too late at the kennedy space center... the first imax movie had already started

nasa is in some deep shit. some important guy said that the space shuttle program has been a mistake and they will stop the program. controversy assured. they want to go back to the moon in 2018 and the KSC makes that very clear. the cool imax movie about life on the space shuttle is replaced by a propaganda imax movie about the landing on the moon which i thought was absolutely not as interesting. it was very biased and very child oriented. we took the 12h30 show and left the movie theater at 13h15...

the tour around the centre took forever because they only run shuttles buses every 25 minutes due to huge fuel prices.. still not that much compared to europe.. but three times more expensive than six years ago... iso of 1 dollar per gallon (4 liter) it is now 3 dollar...it doesn't make a difference if i tell american is it 6 per gallon in europe...

we stopped at two fast food chain to pick up lunch... result: 7 chose subway sandwiches (i love them) and 17 preferred burger king (absolutely the best of all hamburger joints)

then we had the rain showers which slowed down traffice.. plus the fact that i had promised to drop of all the pepole to their hotels.. 8 hotels in total. i wnated to just drop them of at the original hotel as it should be done but some had it written explicitly that the transfer to their south beach hotel was included. also... i needed some tipping and i thought they would tip me more if i could make them believe that thanks to my efforts they don't have to pay for a taxi.. those people tipped ok... but again most people tipped less than the minimum.....really that tipping is just such a big problem.

so i had 30 minutes to get from south beach to the airport. there was an accident of course and it rained so i never made it in time. the queues werer so long that i just gave up and went to rebook the ticket. there was no later flight that day..

as a result the people in boston did not meet me until today. i have again pax in two different hotels and i have only seen the ones in this hotel. i arrived late afternoon to go with the pax from center to hotel. i bascilaly have not seen boston at all except of the holocaust memorial and some building. first impression is not that great although i loved the fact that the sun was shining and it wasn't even that cold.

tomorrow we head to salem and sleepin portland, main