Making the Best of a Flight Delay or Cancellation

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  05.28.10 | 12:38 PM ET

Don George offers an alternate take on flight woes:

One moment the day is all organized and itineraried; we’ve already lived it in our minds, we’re already arriving in San Francisco. And then the universe sends a little gift - your flight is cancelled; there’s a rupture in the fabric of certainty and expectation. The itinerary is out the window. Suddenly an alternative stream of possibilities, sunlit, floods into the scene.