The Wandering Disciple

The EC-130 aircraft of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard sit on the ramp at Harrisburg International Airport. Harrisburg International Airport is home to the 193rd Special Operations Wing which has operated at the airport since 1964. (Photo: May 1, 2004)

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: We left Delaware in the morning to head back to Pennsylvania. We were going to spend a little more time with family in Lebanon before heading to the airport in Harrisburg. We suffered our only glitch of the trip when we were trying to leave Harrisburg. It began when we tried to make it through security. My mom gave us an anniversary clock for our one year wedding anniversary we celebrated while on the trip on the 26th. To avoid having it broken in our checked baggage, we kept it in our carry on. Well it alarmed the TSA screener and we were taken aside into secondary screening while the examined the clock to make sure it wasn’t a bomb. Then once they cleared the clock and returned it to us, we made it to the gate only to find out the plane was grossly overweight. The Comair representative said that since we were going to encounter heavy weather on the flight into Atlanta, they needed to take on more fuel. They asked four people to voluntarily give up ...

Strasburg, Pennsylvania: We headed to Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport to catch an early morning flight to begin our first travel to leave the state. Yeah we have traveled around Florida plenty of times, but this was our first trip together out of the state and my first visit back home to Pennsylvania since moving to Florida in 1998. The itinerary of the trip was a busy one. In one week we were planning on visiting family and seeing a bunch of stops along the way. We plan to visit Williamsburg, New York City and Washington DC while visiting with family in between the trips. The trip started with an early morning flight out of SRQ on Delta to Atlanta-Hartsfield International Airport. This was the first flight for both me and my wife. Then in Atlanta, we transferred to a Comair Regional Jet to take us into Harrisburg International Airport. Both legs of the flight were uneventful, perfect for a first flight experience. Once we hit the ground in Pennsylvania, we were greete...