Dragon Con 2021: Well, that was a trip
Posted By Kathleen David on September 2, 2021
I didn’t thinl hurricane Ida was going to be that much of an impact on our journey.
I was wrong.
We were fine for a while and then descended into a wind swept hëll of heavy rain, lighting, and the occasional tornado.
It came to a point that we had to get off the road for the night a couple of hours before we had planned to.
There was a bit of a problem in doing this. We were practically in the middle of nowhere. The closest landmark was the Natural Bridge.
The first one in the area was a Budget Inn. Budget Inns and I don’t get along very well.
The second was The Hotel run by Wyndam. Due to things that happened down the highway from us, we had to take the side road over. I did find out eventually that it was an over turned tractor trailer.
So after winding our way through narrow, unlit streets we arrived.
They had rooms ar reasonable prices so we got one.
I went to get our travel bag a couple of other things out of the car.
On my way back I saw a butterfly trying to dry its wings, I watched for a few minutes and turned to make sure I had locked the car,
At that split second a mighty lighting strike illuminated the mountains in front of me and I saw a funnel cloud moving across. It was epic, breathtaking, and very scary all at the same moment.
The next day was rain but nothing like the night before.
We got down here and I hugged my parents for the first time in almost two years.
That was such a lovely feeling.
Today we set up Peter’s space in Artist Alley. He is at table 109.
Tomorrow we start DragonCon.
I am grateful we made it here safe.
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