So Monday night I went to my place to pack my crap and get ready for the DO. I got the bag packed and I got myself to the Seattle airport to leave for JFK. Well I parked my car and boarded the bus to the airport. I got the airport and set myself up in the S concourse to wait out the hours to my flight. I took pictures of the model I bought from flight memory. I checked in for LH 405, and then I went to the bar.

At the bar I had an amazing discussion with a lawyer/HS teacher about U.S. immigration reform. I went to my gate to board my NW red-eye to MSP. Ooops no passport. Oh did I say oops I meant panic. For the next hour I tore the terminal apart. I asked everyone, I made calls. I did every thing I could from the airport. I talked to 10+ people and I got no where. When the flight was called for final boarding, I went to the counter and canceled my ticket to JFK, feeling like I had just been run over by a bus.

Despair, I thought I knew the well. When I left the Seattle airport I felt worse then I have ever felt in my life. I grabbed a cab from the cab stand, and I gave the guy directions and he took me home. It was 1 am and when I got home it was almost compulsive, I went through all my stuff for the 30th time. There was no anger, no denial, just despair. I pulled my self together and began to take the necessary steps. Those steps included canceling my reward ticket and informing the organizers that I would not be going to the StarMegaDO.

My soul was crushed and I posted a mea culpa on the CO forum under the title, “I am a effing moron.” Between all the sympathy I got from the members of the CO forum. The greatest thing about that thread was the discussion about the a v an in the thread title. Eventually my phone started to blow up and I started to get e-mails, stating that my passport had been recovered by USCIS at the Seattle airport.

I called USCIS and they said they would hold my passport for a few hours. I really didn’t think I would be able to put something together. However, I went online to Continental.com and surfed reward tickets. Surprise surprise there were saverpass tickets for the same day and returning on Saturday.

Sold.