BBQ – PhD Day #3 “Home Sweet Home”

With our BBQ certificates in hand we headed home.  Memphis Airport is small and very easy to negotiate.  The first leg of our trip home took us to Dallas (DFW) Airport.  That place is much bigger than Memphis and of course the terminal in which you arrive is not the same as the terminal from which you will depart.  That would be too easy.  After a short wait (I first typed weight, I guess I am still feeling guilty about all the eating we did this weekend) we were on our way.  A little lightning as we took off from Dallas got my blood flowing.  There was turbulence which was also a bit unnerving.  The remainder of the flight was uneventful.

One thing is clear, all our traveling these past 3 years has made us very much into spoiled brats.  For example I was annoyed there wasn’t wifi on our flight from DFW to LAX. Unfortunately I asked the flight attendant if there was wifi and she told me, “I don’t think so because this is one of our older planes”.  That got me thinking, lightning, turbulence, older plane……..  why didn’t I just keep my mouth shut?

Also the hotel was not to our liking.  We stayed at the Holiday Inn which was where the seminar was located.  It was clear that we were not at the Peabody (where we stayed during our first 2 trips to Memphis).  First of all, no spare toilet paper in a cloth bag (How uncivilized!), no safe (This is the Holiday Inn, leave your valuables at home) but most important, no chocolate on our pillows at night.   Also we missed the Peabody Ducks.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwo9L8L_i3U

The trip and training was a lot of fun.  We look forward to the BBQ Festival next May.  I hope if you can’t go with us you will at least follow along via my blog.

Robert