Stressed!

[mondaytosunday]

Just need to vent as I’m trying to not let my DD know how stressed I am about her going off to Columbia for six weeks. Travelling makes me extremely anxious - have I got everything, will I lose something, will traffic be bad, will I miss my flight, what if I have to sit between two chatterboxes or whatever… have I forgotten something essential…you know the drill! She has to fly via Miami and go through customs then back through security then five hour wait til next plane arriving at midnight. I’m sure she’ll have a great time once there but I am dreading the next 24 hours! Now added to it we are to leave in ten minutes and she’s still faffing about! And why is there only a UK travel section? Did I miss something?

Did you manage to leave on time?

30 years ago DM took me to Heathrow for a flight to Kenya via Paris. I was coming back 4 months later, and she had to rely on me contacting her and poste restante!

I hope your DD arrives safely and has a wonderful trip.

She’s three quarters of the way there. At least the first leg! I’m much calmer now . She texted from her seat. Arrived in Miami in a couple hours and had five hours there before heading to Columbia. When she texts me from her room I’ll be happy (which will be about 8 am tomorrow)!
I did my third year of uni in Paris (from the States) in the 80s and ashamed to say I didn’t give my poor mother a second thought! It was letters back then too as no phone in the flat I was in!

@IbizaToTheNorfolkBroadsas a follow up - it was an unmitigated nightmare! First flight fine but it went to pot in Miami. Long story short she couldn’t find any ground staff to help her and then she spotted someone with a lanyard who initially told her she’d missed it (it was still two hours from scheduled departure)! Anyhoo four gate changes and then delayed two hours and frantically trying to text the driver who was meeting her…she arrived at the hotel exhausted at 9am our time. Once she returns in six weeks I don’t think she’ll ever leave the house again! At one of the (wrong) gates she waited at she overheard two blokes who had had to stay in the airport the night before due to delays and the passengers to that flight were being called up one by one to the gate until the plane was full…Miami is the worst. But she’s there safe. Trip in reverse though … ugh.