--- author: Eric Wagoner date: '2001-12-03T02:22:00' draft: false title: I made it home. --- I made it home. But to do so, I had to abandon the airline altogether. When I arrived in Charlotte Friday evening, a mere two hours late, my connecting flight had left me. The next one wasn't for twenty-four hours, and it was full. There was another on Sunday, but it was full. There were seats available on Monday, if I wanted to wait, and perhaps they could fit me on one of the earlier flights. Three days, they said, to make it from Charlotte to Athens. So I rented a car and drove it in three hours.