The Idaho Falls Regional Airport is much nicer and very much busier than
\nthe Pocatello airport! I’m in the IFA airport waiting for my 8:15 flight to
\nMinneapolis. From there I’m flying to Amsterdam and driving to Belgium. I’m
\nhere plenty early! If I do this routing in the future, I’ll get to the
\nairport about now (7:15 am) rather than today’s arrival of 6:00 am. The
\nairport waiting area is comfortable and wifi is available throughout the
\nairport. It’s clear to me why Idaho Falls wouldn’t want to give up their
\nairport for a more central (to Pocatello) regional airport.<\/p>\n
It has been a very busy past couple of weeks. We had lots of fun with
\nchildren and grandchildren over the 4th of July weekend. Jim and family
\nwere the last to leave and should be back home tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Talking and telling stories around the dinner table provided good
\nentertainment. Sunday evening, July 3rd, mom and dad came over from Soda
\nSprings for dinner. I turned on my iRiver and got quite a bit of audio. I’m
\nnot quite done slicing and dicing the audio, but when it’s done, I’ll post
\nthe stories on this blog.<\/p>\n
This airport has flights to Salt Lake City, Boise, Portland, Pocatello
\n(!!), Minneapolis, and Cincinnati. That last is interesting. I think that
\nDelta nay have some flights to Europe out of Cincinnati. That’s worth
\nchecking out.<\/p>\n
We missed trash day on the Tuesday after the Monday holiday. Rather than
\nslipping the trash pickup by one day (as was usual in Colorado Springs), I
\nguess they work overtime in Pocatello and keep the schedule. So we had an
\noverabundance of trash. Jim’s car still wasn’t fixed on Tuesday so we took
\nthe motorhome and most of the visiting grandkids, drove over to Logan, and
\npicked up Jim, LeeAnn and family (his car was finally fixed on Wednesday).
\nWhile we were gone, Heather and Jaelene packed Jaelene’s rental car full of
\ntrash and garbage sacks and took them to various dumpsters around town to
\nrelieve the trash situation. One of the bags must have been leaking as it
\ntook the two girls another two days with carpet cleaners, fabric sprays,
\nand elbow grease to get the sickening smell out of the car. Rental cars
\nsure do take a lot of abuse!<\/p>\n
When our travel agency was making the flight arrangements for thus trip
\nthey proposed the following itinerary:<\/p>\n
Pocatello to Boise
\nBoise to Seattle
\nSeattle to Vancouver, British Columbia
\nSpend the night
\nVancouver to London’s Heathrow
\nLondon to Brussels<\/p>\n
Return was the opposite schedule, including the night’s stay in Vancouver.
\nAll of that for $5300. I said no and told the agency to check flights
\nthrough idaho Falls and Minneapolis. They found this routing for $4950. Big
\ndifference in cost and schedule!<\/p>\n
It’s time to board.<\/p>\n
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The Idaho Falls Regional Airport is much nicer and very much busier than the Pocatello airport! I’m in the IFA airport waiting for my 8:15 flight to Minneapolis. From there I’m flying to Amsterdam and driving to Belgium. I’m here plenty early! If I do this routing in the future, I’ll get to the airport … Continue reading On the Way Again<\/span>