Dodging Dorian

Weather reports of Hurricane Dorian has dominated the news cycle here in Canada, for the past week to ten days. As I watched the Weather Channel and CBS/NBC I felt for the people of the Bahamas and the devastation they were suffering, I listened, half heartedly, to the reports of the path of the hurricane as it missed Florida and was heading for the Carolinas. However, as it made its way up the East Coast, reports began to filter that it might hit maritime Canada! Oh No, this was not on the agenda! As we partied in the Wilds, some of the guests, who were due to travel the following day, starting getting emails with news of delayed flights, resulting in connections being missed. Then the delays became cancellations and the weather reports of how Dorian was going to affect Halifax, through where many of us were transiting and St. Johns, began to sound like Armageddon! So, Saturday the airports in St Johns and Halifax were closed, with one hundred mile an hour winds battering the areas, while we continued with a post wedding party in O’Reilly’s pub in St Johns!

Some people were rebooked on Sunday, the day I myself was due to travel and the airlines assured us the worst would be over. However, Sunday morning, I had a conversation with an airline pilot at the hotel, who ruefully told me we would have a ‘bumpy ride’ later that evening and to be prepared! However, I am writting this as we wing our way across the Atlantic in mild conditions. A wonderful adventure has finished and like all good things, my RockinintheRockies has come to an end. I hope you, the Readers, have enjoyed my reports as much as I have enjoyed, both experiencing a wonderful country and writing about the trip. So until the next trip, au revoir, over and out!