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.

For anyone keeping track...

The bus got into the parking lot at 5am.

More later. I need to start some laundry and get settled.

Makes you think (UPDATED)

I probably shouldn't write this with a whole half of road trips ahead, but bus accidents have always been in the back of my mind.

I was in Duluth the year of the 50th anniversary of a horrible 1948 bus crash involving the Duluth Dukes, a Northern League team. That gives me pause every time I get on a bus.

So, I think everyone involved is glad that this one wasn't nearly as bad.

Members of the Kane County Cougars and Beloit Snappers were on a charter bus that rear-ended a semi truck in a construction zone, snarling US-131 traffic but causing no injuries.

The baseball team members were returning from Midland, where the Midwest League All-Star Game was played Tuesday night. They were on the bus that did not slow down when the semi truck did.

The Cougars and Snappers share a charter company. My guess is that is the reason for the two teams traveling together.

I didn't see anything else on it. But, will post if there is anything.

UPDATE: Here is the Grand Rapids Press story. Erik VanDyck, the media relations director for the Snappers, was on the bus.

"The bus driver slammed on the breaks real quick, everything shifted forward and we heard a loud bang," he said. "The windshield was cracked but everybody was fine, nobody was hurt. It was just a crunch."

About 40 people were on the bus, which was traveling about 15 mph, VanDyck said.