October 8-9, 2009:

To tell you right up front, I am home in the US, safe, though with no thanks to Delta who must have the single most screwed up system in Airline history. This is not a fun story to relate.

Thursday was my day-before-leaving-Scotland routine. It was complicated by work on the chimney and visits by lots of friends wanting to say goodby. But all doable. I was going to have dinner with Debby and Bob, and then Debby was planning to come by Friday morning at 8 to drive me to the Edinburgh airport...