erniefreeman's Blog

     First of all, we are here, in San Antonio, site of this year's Final Four.  But getting here wasn't easy, and I mean that quite literally.

     Thursday morning me, Matt Stark and Greg Gaston loaded up a Fox-13 vehicle and jumped on Interstate 40 bound for Little Rock.  Our travel folks had booked us a much cheaper flight out of Little Rock to San Antonio.  It was a connector flight, so we had to switch planes in, get this, Memphis.  That's right, our noon flight departed Little Rock and flew us back to Memphis.  I drove, and it wasn't a bad trip, unless you count the monsoon that poured on us the entire trip, and the apparent tornado that was in the vicinity while we drove.  The bad weather started causing delays in the region, so we were late leaving The Rock.  Our Memphis connection was delayed too.  But it wasn't delayed enough for us.  We missed the flight by five minutes.  Next flight to San Antonio...7:20 Thursday night.  Let me summarize for you: We left Memphis at 8am Thursday morning, but we were now being told that we would be leaving Memphis at 7:20 Thursday evening.  It was roughly 2:30, and we had some time on our hands.  We decided to spend it at the airport. 

     We eventually made it to San Antonio around 10pm Thursday.  What a long day.  We were supposed to file some reports for Fox-13 News at Nine Thursday, but with us still being in the air, we were unable to file those reports.  I did have some fun times with Stark and Gaston.  We talked a little sports and had couple sweet teas at Corky's in the airport.  I have pictures.  So glad we're here.