Ok, so spontaneous Dallas trip…
Last Monday the 21st, I happily quit my OSU Calling job…I decided I was going to just work my internship and have some good old college fun for the rest of the summer until RA Training. The next day, one of my former roommate came over…she had purchased plane tickets months ago to go visit our other old roommate who lives in Dallas…she had invited me but at the time I said no because I didn’t want to waste the time or the money. But that night, she was just commenting on how she had found some reasonably priced flights online that day that she was comparing to her ticket price, and I pretty much said, “I could do that.� So we had dinner and thought it over…and then we came back and the tickets were about $50 more expensive. It was now or never. The flight was leaving the next day, and it was the Hotwire website, so the flights are inexpensive but you don’t actually find out what time your flight is leaving until you actually pay and it’s too late to back out…and it could be as early as 6 am. I called Hotwire begging them to tell me the time the plane left….after all, I had my internship to consider…but they couldn’t. So I just went for it.
My flight ended up leaving a 2:30 pm. That was workable. I came in for my internship for about an hour, and tried my best to explain the situation to my boss, without exaggerating the truth too much. It didn’t go over too badly, so I was on my way to spend a week in Texas.
Spontaneous? Absolutely. But the best worst decision I ever made. It was such a blast…when I remember how to do pictures on here I will put the pictures up, because they really show the experience…it’s actually a very different environment than I’m used to in many ways. And it has only made me want to travel farther and see new and different places even more.