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JANUARY 1999 Monday, January 4, 1999 was the start of my winter vacation. It was a great time to get away from Indiana. We had just gotten about a foot of snow and ice over the weekend and the temperature was below zero. The airport had been closed for most of the weekend, and there were stranded travelers everywhere when I arrived at the airport early Monday morning. I was a little nervous about getting out of Indianapolis ontime and making my connecting flight out of Atlanta. But things didn't start off too bad, as we made it out to the runway only about thirty minutes late. This is where my luck ended for this trip. We were barreling down the runway getting ready to take off when the pilot slammed on the brakes and aborted the takeoff. Power to one of the engines had failed and we returned to the gate. A fuel line had frozen. They fixed the problem and we got on our way about two hours later. I of course missed my connecting flight out of Atlanta, and the next flight out was already over-booked by 30 people. Somehow they did manage to squeeze me on the plane and I got to the Gulf Coast only about three hours late.  This is where I stayed in Biloxi, Mississippi, The Imperial Palace Hotel. It was like a high-rise ghost town, almost no one around. The weather was awful, record-breaking cold temperatures.  Above is the Biloxi harbor.  I spent a couple days in Mobile, Alabama. The building on the left is where I stayed, The Adam's Mark Hotel.  I spent the rest of the trip in Gulfport, Mississippi. This is where I stayed, The Grand Hotel and Casino.
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