All According to Plan...

Saturday, July 02, 2005, at 11:08AM

By Eric Richardson

My interesting trip plans for Friday actually turned out to work quite well. Kathy and I met up at Union Station and bought tickets for the 11:20 Metrolink to San Bernadino. Or that was at least where the train was headed; we got off in Upland. There we had to wait 15 minutes or so, but the taxi driver I had scheduled did turn up and took us on the short drive to the airport.

It turns out this cabbie was actually doing dispatch from his car... No radio, just a cell phone mounted on the dash that calls would come into. He'd write down the street address and tell him an approximate time to pick-up. My favorite part, though: sitting in the bottom of the trunk were a set of golf clubs. I assume they were his, but I didn't ask.

We got to the airport with plenty of time to check in, get through security (a five minute process, if that), and eat at Applebees before having to walk to the gate and board.

So now I'm in Denver until tomorrow evening. Then back to LA.