Saturday night after the blackout we noticed the movie theater we'd failed to see Alice in Wonderland at on Friday was showing it Sunday at noon. We would have to get up early to catch it, but ... we could do that, couldn't we? We had the free passes, and when would there be a better chance, particularly while it was in 3-D?
( I may have the sequence of events at the airport a little garbled as they were surprisingly confusing. )So despite the worry, she flew out of Newark successfully, and arrived in Detroit with just the time needed to get the bus home. The spring break visit was over, and successfully. It was too short, but it was at all, and that's the truly important trait.
Trivia: Paramount Pictures's 1936 film 13 Hours By Air depicts a transcontinental flight on a Boeing 247-D. The flight depicted actually would take 17 hours. Source: The Boeing 247: The First Modern Airliner, F Robert van der Linden.
Currently Reading: The 1972 Annual World's Best SF, Editor Donald A Wollheim.