Last night we planned to meet up with some friends at a local restaurant, and our guest of honor had the unfortunate experience of being stuck in Philadelphia because his flights into Chicago kept getting canceled. He finally made it in just in time for dinner and it was great to catch up with him.

I remember we had about the same experience on a flight to Vancouver. Weather stateside was perfect. Clear skies, no rain…but apparently it was really windy in Canada. We had booked our flights online and were extremely lucky because we just kept logging back in and changing our flights until we finally got into Canada much earlier than the folks on our original flight. It’s moments like this when sites like DialaFlight come in handy. You literally can have your finger on the pulse of air travel-and that can save valuable time when trying to get out of the airport!

The nice thing…we were stuck in San Francisco and there is no better place for seafood than that! We had a wonderful dinner, and happened to catch the first available flight out. Times like these make the Chef and I very happy!