No More Sinking Feeling

Most of you have probably had this feeling at one time or another: You’ve planned for months or even years the trip of a lifetime. Maybe it’s the ultimate vacation to celebrate your graduation or anniversary, your wedding or retirement — or a reunion with family or friends. Then the big day finally arrives and you’re so excited you feel as though you’re walking on air. With that in mind, let me call to your attention a headline that many of you read recently when you picked up your morning newspaper:”Man Books Flight to Granada, Ends Up in Grenada.” That’s right, a man who thought he had booked a dream-vacation flight to Granada in Spain, instead unwittingly boarded a plane to Grenada in the Caribbean. So instead of a two hour flight from London, the man was still in the air nine hours later and 4,000 miles away from his intended destination! Talk about a detour! While I’m sure Grenada in the Caribbean is a…