The journey home
I returned the scooter to
luggage services, used a dining meal option for breakfast (left the resort with
one meal not used), and brought it back to my room.
I called up and did the
bounce back offer. I priced Pop again, and POFQ, both with basic dining. I was
paying a upgrade fee for the pop reservation, since
that only comes with free quick service dining. Pop was $ 1,018., POFQ was $1400 something, so I went with Pop again. They
tried to quote it with insurance, but I didn’t want it at this time, can always
add it later, and if I need to cancel,Travel
insurance is not refundable.
I watched the 9/11 ceremonies
on TV while eating. Then I dumped my luggage on to one of the beds and started
to separate clothes from electronics.
I left my room about
Made it to
Amtrak station without issue. Said
to Bob, see you next year, just about the same week.
I did notice sheriff car in
the parking lot, and different police, Amtrak, Orlando, and TSA security
walking around the station. When they
announced people to line up outside about 1/2 hr early, I thought the train was
coming in early, but what happened shocked me.
There was TSA checkpoints,
screening passengers before being allowed onto the train. They swabbed my
hands, inspected my backpack of electronics, just poked around, didn’t have me empty it. I think they swabbed my luggage too,
that would have been a nightmare if they needed it opened, just was barely able
to close it, But I passed. Another fellow traveler swab test beeped a bad beep,
so they called over the supervisors to go over her things more closely, but she
boarded the train without issue.
Got a little over 2 hrs
before eating on board the train, so I am going to relax, will check in, only
if something interesting happens, hopefully a long boring ride