leaving
the flight home was the first indications that the vacation was over. sigh. the rental car agreement states we must fill up the tank within 16 kilometers of the rental car facilities. course denver airport is more than 16 kms removed from civilization. so we had to fill up at the gas station on site. and pay monopoly prices. wee. still cheaper than home though. strange but true. the gas station was, you guessed it, under construction. the nice building that will eventually house the cash registers isn't open yet. and the shack on the other side of the immense lot can't do credit card fill-ups. great. the shuttle bus ride took us to half the airlines. everyone got off except us. including someone we knew was on the same airline. weird. construction forced the shuttle bus to backtracked through all the pedestrian traffic. then it drove to the other side of the same building. and fore-tracked through the pedestrian traffic leaving the other set of airlines. then backtracked to the shuttle bus stop. we were deposited 100 meters from the doors. so yeah. all that carsickness inducing bus driving got us a whopping 100 m closer to the check-in line. where we had to use the kiosks. cause i didn't pre-do the qr thing. ah well. next time we fly to denver we'll know the tricks.