Off to Atlanta -- March 13th -- Day 1

The trip to the airport and then on to Atlanta went smoothly. We used the high costs of parking a car at SeaTac as justification to hire a limousine to take us to the airport, and that is definitely the way to go. It turned out that one of Max's former office mates, Susan Rosen, was on the same plane and also had a two hour layover in Chicago, so we had dinner with her--a very pleasant way to spend the time. We arrived in Atlanta on schedule at 11:30 p.m. EDT, and found that indeed the new Hartsfield Airport is as big as advertised. It took us an hour to get our bags and find our way to the rental car center, and by the time we crawled into bed it was 2 a.m. The 3 hour advantage of coming from the west coast had disappeared overnight.