So I've had another hiccup in my journey, and this one was a little bigger. I woke up to find that my 9:45 am flight from Austin to Dallas had been delayed until 11 am, meaning that would miss my connecting flight to JFK, and thus to Rome. Awesome. Thanks, American. I headed to the airport anyway, in hopes of speaking to someone at the desk, but it turned out to be a big clusterf*%#. It turns out that everyone else who was on my flight was going to miss their connecting flights, too. No pictures of this, since I didn't want to be taken in for questioning. Luckily I was able to get a hold of someone at American on the phone while I was waiting in line. So now I'm leaving here 7 hours
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