Road Dog Diaries in full effect
🕑 Added 2022-08-11 08:38:15 +0000 UTCWhat a day of travel…
I took this shot of Azrael right before I left for Detroit. I just love her big paws 🐾.
I left home at 9am for my 3 hr drive across the island to San Juan with my buddy Angie. She is the island Uber, since Uber doesn’t exist where I live.
We talked about family, past lives, addiction, when to walk away from friendships and how to heal from it all. It was a great start to the trip.
But if I’m being honest the trip really started at 10pm the night before. I had booked a red eye out of Aguadilla but felt awful. My belly and my back were being difficult so I chose to rebook leaving from San Juan during the day. I rested for a while instead. So then I left the house at 9am the next morning … today. Yesterday? It’s 4am in Detroit and I’m lost in space. The travel was full of rude flight attendants and cranky passengers, topped with delay after delay.
Newark held me captive along with a plane full of folks eager to get to The Midwest. My flight out of Newark was scheduled to depart at 8:30pm but kept being delayed until we finally departed at 1:30 am. I had a pretty good meltdown in the airport but left the crowded space I was in to find a spot to totally lose my shit in an empty bathroom. As it turns out, My shit was not the only thing I lost.
I will be very clear on This, I now hate air travel. I love me a good road trip but I’m 💯 over airports. The entire art of air travel has become a dumpster fire. It sucks. I hate it. I find myself developing more of an aversion each time I take to the friendly skies.
When I pulled up to my hotel at 4am I realized that I not only lost my mind at Newark airport but my wallet too. Over $200 cash, all my cards and Identification and the beautiful Louis Vuitton wallet my mom saved up to buy me. I’m laying in bed at the hotel in tears. I’m feeling extremely overwhelmed. I’m trying to remember that I’m safe, I’m ok, I’m warm and dry. Things are just things.
Thank the Gods Haley went to the dispensary before I landed so at least I can medicate and pass the fuck out.
First day of travel and it’s off to a rocky start. I’m praying things start looking up soon.
I hope your day was less tragic.💗
Comments
Kim Rice
Sending you a great big virtual hug, dear friend. 🤗 I was originally going to comment on how much my own experience getting out of Aguadilla was, but…. Here’s another virtual hug instead. 🤗 I think your story just cemented my decision to drive to the show in Buffalo.
David Johnson
Holy shit!! 😱What a cluster fuck that all was. First of all I'm relieved you are safe. I hate airports because we are left at their mercy to decide our fate. Sounds to me like you hung in as best you could considering the situation. I guess all I can really do is send out positive wishes for a much better trip moving forward (hard to get any worse). Please keep us updated from time to time. These little personal vents should help lighten some stress. Stay strong. We appreciate you as you are....just one of us. A fellow struggling human!! 😜😘
Greg Smith
Wow! What a fucked up day you had. Thankfully you’re safe. Hopefully the bad stuff is over and good things will happen today. Take care of yourself. ❤️❤️
Andrew Connolly
Take things easy Danielle can’t have been easy doing all that in such a short time rest and relax as much as you can and don’t stress over things you can’t control. Just be you! 😊
