The obvious headline

Throw one perfect game in a World Series and it gets brought up every time your in the news.

Don Larsen spends time at Sea-Tac during less-than-perfect trip

It was supposed to be a routine journey for Don Larsen, a trip from his home in Idaho to New York and back two days later. Larsen traveled east about two weeks ago to tape an interview for the MLB Network about pitching a perfect game for the New York Yankees in the 1956 World Series.

An excursion Larsen figured would take 60 hours turned into a six-day odyssey because of brutal weather on both coasts. Larsen waited in line for 11 hours at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, cursed a borrowed cellphone after it died and wondered if he would make it home for Christmas.

"I've never had problems like that before," Larsen said. "The storms came in and, all of a sudden, I was stuck. I don't like to be stuck anywhere."

But Larsen was stranded with countless other travelers whose plans were scuttled in mid-December. Four days into Larsen's jaunt, Andrew Levy, the sports-marketing agent who helped plan the trip, went almost 24 hours without hearing from him. So he called police in Washington and asked if an incident report had been filed on a 79-year old male. None had been.

The Dec. 19 interview, which aired for the first time Thursday, took place in Secaucus, N.J., and was the seamless part of the trip. Snow blanketed the area as Larsen was reminiscing about the only perfect game in World Series history, so he never trekked to Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey for his scheduled flight to Sea-Tac.

Read the rest of it and you'll find out why I prefer to drive when I take a vacation.