> >Eight hours shorter to fly to Bahrain.

This trip was courtesy of an Orbitz error, which scheduled a -23 hour layover.

> About that Oregon to Texas flight; did you have to fly an indirect route of two or more legs?

Five stops. When I was in the Denver airport early in the morning, I was apparently the *only* person in the airport for a couple hours. Certainly there was no one else in concourse C, and when I rode the train around for entertainment, there was no one visible in the other concourses or in the terminal.

They left several tempting items of equipment out, including a waxing machine like a cross between a dog sled and a vacuum cleaner, and a go-cart for the airport police. If I had actually gone for a joyride around the empty concourse, I imagine some guard from the bowels of the building would have emerged to harass me. I left a note at the customer information booth requesting that they either hide away such equipment or affix signs to them clearly permitting public enjoyment.