Gotta love modern-day air travel. If you cut it too close in getting to the airport, you'll inevitably encounter delays at the counter and security that'll have you seriously sweating it. On the other hand, if you arrive when they tell you - an hour and a half before domestic flights, two hours before international ones - you'll find you zip through in a matter of minutes and suddenly you have tons of time to kill.
So here I sit, at DFW Airport, with tons of time before my flight will board. And a brilliant idea popped into my head.
In ten years, will I remember what business travel was like? Will my nieces wonder someday what my life was like on the road? Is that something a future Flinn might find interesting?
And another "week-in-the-life"-type project is born.
I've decided to snap photos with my little Elph throughout the course of this trip to capture what it's like to be on the road for business in 2008. Or, at least, those things I'm allowed to take photos of. Somehow I think the TSA agents wouldn't be so keen on me taking shots in line at security.

This is me at DFW Airport, ready for my trip. Since I've got a pretty arduous day of travel ahead of me involving two flights, a layover in Denver, and a drive once I arrive in Saskatoon, I opted for blue jeans and running shoes. Because the temperature in Saskatoon will be in the teens when I arrive tonight, I'm dressed in layers: a stretchy tee, a cable-knit zip-front sweater, and my black leather trenchcoat. And, of course, I packed my leather Thinsulate gloves.

DFW Airport is full of escalators like this one that look like they go on forever. This one took me up to the SkyLink, which I rode from Terminal B (where my flight is) to Terminal D (where the good shopping is). I needed hand lotion, which seems to be the one thing I forgot to pack. (At least, I'm hoping it's the one thing I forgot to pack...)

SkyLink is awesome. It makes moving from one section of the airport to another extremely easy. I rarely have to use it unless I park at the terminal for an out-and-back day trip, and wind up arriving at a different terminal than I departed from. But seriously, I don't know why people complain about DFW Airport - as far as I'm concerned, it's one of the easiest airports to navigate.

Have tickets, will travel. It's so very rare for me to have to make a connecting flight ... when I fly on American Airlines, everything domestic is a direct flight ... but the only way for me to get to Saskatoon, Sasketchewan was via either Denver or Chicago. The cheapest flight combination wound up being on Air Canada, operated by United.

So I'm at one of the whopping three gates at DFW Airport that is operated by United, waiting not-so-patiently for them to announce boarding.
We'll see if I can actually keep up with the photo-taking throughout the course of this trip...!
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