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SO. After much consternation and internal debate, I’m off to Pittsburgh. My first time in an airplane…and car…since I left Florida the second weekend in March, the last weekend BC (before corona), before the whole world changed. I make the way easy for myself and cab to the airport. I’m anxious to see what I will find there.
Only passengers and essential personnel can enter the airport. Everyone masked of course. As I check in at the kiosk I’m advised that one of my flights is more full than usual. I can change flight at no extra charge. Or choose my seat for more money, Or even upgrade. I choose to play out my hand and wind up with solo aisle seat in both flights. Only skeleton crews are on duty at the counter and throughout the airport. The airport appears to be about 80% shut down. It’s got a late at night kind of eeriness about it.
At my layover at Dulles, none of the newsstands sell newspapers, for Covid 19 reasons. We’re all making up our own rules. Wear my mask the whole way.
By the time I land in Pittsburgh, the Penguins have managed to lose to the lowest seeded team in the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Montreal Canadiens. Second year un a row for the team with 3 Cups in 11 years to bow out in the first round. As we approached the airport, we flew low over PNC Park, an empty stadium housing a game between the Tigers and Pirates. This is our world.
In Pittsburgh, I find the same eerie mostly shut down environment. The car rental experience is even worse as I wind up waiting an hour to get my car. A very small number of workers are doing deep cleaning on every car that comes back. It's a sloooooow process.
I’m happy to be driving down the familiar road to my aunt’s house. First time out of the city in over 4 months......
May your Aunt be glad to see you. There maybe chores.
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