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Stuck in Denver for a day? No problem. the Denver light rail system provides a pleasant diversion. A train passes the convention center downtown as a giant blue bear tries to break in.


morning, go to Seattle for a six-hour connec- tion and get to Fairbanks at about 10:30 p.m. Option 2 is to stay in Denver all day and take the same flight we were booked on 24 hours later, getting to Fairbanks at 11:00 p.m. (15 minutes later). This was a no brain- er; I booked us on the evening flight out of Denver and called for a rental car in Denver. After two more hours on the plane we fi- nally took off, seven hours late. The only thing I didn’t do was reserve a hotel in Den- ver because all the hotels would want a


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guaranteed reservation and until we actual- ly took off I was thinking there was a good chance we weren’t getting out of New York. Once in Denver, United dumped us off at the airport at midnight and put us on our own. Fortunately, I had called for the rental car. Unfortunately, Denver had severe flooding with lots of evacuations (and lots of people staying in hotels) and it took almost two hours to find a motel with one room left, an overpriced Sleep Inn that charged $140. Making the best of a bad situation, we had


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