Mark Mourer, who is widely known in these parts, is one of a group of Horned Frogs fans whose travel plans have been disrupted by Southwest Airlines’ scheduling misfortune that caused the airline to cancel more than 13,000 flights over the course of last week. was.
Well over a million passengers may have been affected.
But there was good news on Thursday. An official with the Dallas-based airline said the company expects normal operations to resume on Friday.
Moeller, whose flight was canceled on Tuesday, didn’t miss an opportunity. Saturday night at the Fiesta Bowl in the national semi-finals of his playoffs, the third-placed TCU did not miss a match against his second-placed Michigan.
So he loaded the car and, in the spirit of Clark Griswold, had his wife Kelly in the passenger seat and daughters Reese and Haley in the back seat for the 15-hour, 1,035-mile trip to Glendale, Arizona. I put it on and got into the driver’s seat.
“As members of the Horned Frog Nation burn their family roadsters to travel to Arizona, we can be certain of one thing in this trying and improvisational age: #MaxWouldGo.”
This is not vacation. it’s a quest. It’s… a triumphant quest for the horned frog.
We’ll all be whistling “Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah” by Saturday night.
Mourers took off from the Aredo residential area at 5:15 this morning, headed west on Runway 20, crossed Midland in 4.5 hours, and arrived in El Paso around 1:30 PM on Thursday.
Mourer kindly agreed to write a little travel diary for us, telling the story of our trip to Arizona with photos and his magical prose.
like that …
“We passed the first Allsup just before 7am,” wrote Mourer. “We were in Abilene, which obviously spread its wings with the appearance of Hooters on I-20. How a town with a Baptist, Methodist, and Christian church college could staff the Hooters baffle, but back here See, chicken fried steak at Mary’s and don’t draw me in first.
“Let’s go back to the burritos I inherited. When the sun comes up, they’ll probably be mine.”
There are definitely some burritos that go unreported.
Moeller reported that the family’s truck driver pulled into El Paso for gas after “576.4 madcap miles.”
“We mowed tumbleweed, smelled 10,000 cows, passed pistachio farms, crossed the Rio Grande,” he says as he entered New Mexico. “As if being west of Pecos wasn’t enough.”
Leaving aside the difficult topics.
December 29, 2022
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