my flight

I had a very interesting flight into Grenada. My first connection left St. Louis at 7am to arrive in Chicago at 8am. No problems. My next connection was to leave Chicago at 9am and arrive in San Juan at 2:40pm. We boarded the plane as scheduled and took off. Forty minutes into our flight, the Captain announces he is turning around and performing an emergency landing back in Chicago because of an unruly passenger in the back of the plane! I was seated near the back of the plane and was unaware of any disturbance.

Turns out a young man refused to put away/turn off his cell phone and became unruly and disruptive when asked. He was met in Chicago by 5 police cars and was escorted off the plane.

Of course we couldn't just turn around and take off. So we had a 3 hour delay while they refueled and checked over the plane. we took off again around 1pm to arrive in San Juan at 5:50pm. Unfortunately my connecting flight from San Juan to Grenada begins boarding at 5:40 and departs at 6:15p....so it's a bit tight.

We finally arrive in San Juan at about 5:40 and I run through the airport and board the next flight on time. While sitting on the plane to Grenada (a very small maybe 40 passenger plane with propellers), the captain announces we are having trouble with the plane and will need to unload the plane and get another one ready. So we all unload.

The really neat thing about this though was that you don't board the plane via the inside terminal (as normal). You walk out of the terminal, walk outside, drop your bags onto a wagon outside the plane, and board. It reminded me of a trip to Fantasy Island...."the plane Boss."

I arrive in Grenada at approximately 10:30p their time. They are 1 hour ahead of St. Louis time.

My friend Raphael Brathwaite (Nanan) met me at the airport with his girlfriend Suzanne. They are wonderful people and brought me soup for dinner.

My accomodations are great! I am in a two bedroom guest house located in Grand Anse, and owned by Mr. Conrad Francis, Ministry of Sports. It has a view of the harbor and sea and is about two miles from the beach. more on that tomorrow.

Tomorrow we start at 9am with meetings in the ministry and my first television interview.

I will try and include pictures in future posts.

God Bless.

Todd Gober