The U.S. has been through this before. We'll get back on track. I'm embarrassed to see this country through the eyes of someone so forgiving and well-intended. Our "commonweal" (very old, never used word) has swung to the 'insistence of one's moral superiority' and away from productivity. We've always been a country claiming moral high-ground and we'll do better to learn humility
Welcome, welcome, welcome. The first videos of yours I saw were of the WWII memorial cemeteries in France. I thought, now there's a young lady with depth and substance.
As an air traffic controller that guy blaming air traffic control pissed me off by blaming us and saying "it's not the airlines fault" yes it is. We don't dictate when planes want to takeoff and land, the operators do. Do you think I want to drink from a firehose and deal with a ton of planes landing at the same time? No. The airlines make their schedules and they set when they want planes to takeoff and land. Sometimes we do have to delay a plane's takeoff by a short amount of time but that's only so they can fit in line in the sky, not so they all can just show up at the same airport at the same time.
Hi Miss Marie !!! Looks like your catching up on all that editing From your past Trip !!! Awe and Airplane cancellations are no fun Indeed. May I say I Hope this weekend for you is filled With Good Food, Friends & Fun 🤗😊 As Always the Like Button 🔘 has been Illuminated & Thanks for sharing your adventures 🇺🇸 You Maybe our Frenchfry !!! However I consider you one of We The People !!! And A valued Friend !!! 😁👍👍🤗😎🌞🌅🏝️🌴
You've been here so many times, I'm starting to wonder if we should be saying "welcome home" in the comments lol. Sorry it was rough getting here this time.
Sorry about the delays.... I'm a long time aircraft technician (36 years) of United, glad you finally made it . There are many issues today with traveling, too many to address them all but " technical issues" must be addressed for flight safety, frustrating for sure and delays only make it worse and throws everything off. Looking forward to this latest adventure of yours.
Bonjour Marie, I'm sorry to hear of the problems you had getting here. I hope the rest of your trip went better. I think America has become a part of you. I think you should go ahead and apply for citizenship😁
I'm so glad I don't have to travel by air(road trip baby!). It would be so frustrating to look forward to leaving and then have to put it off. I'm happy to see you visiting the middle of the U.S. We're nice people here :)
I had just moved to the St Louis metro area when you got to St Louis. I wish I had been able to meet you. I hope you got to go to the Arch and the St Louis Zoo. There are a lot of things to see in St Louis. I know you get motion sickness so I suppose Six Flags was not on your list. Our "Big River" is down a bit. We are in the second year of a drought.
Hi Marie!!! 🥰🥰 So, you were back in the U.S., but only after the worst trip experience you've ever gone through 😥😥!! I saw that RED Cancelled, and thought oh no! And for technical reasons - boo!!! I liked your little preview of the train, the Westin, traffic, O'Hare (more bad), the yellow Mustang 1981 Coupe Ghia (optional T Top) - fun to see all. 🤗 You had some bread in your hand as you showed us the plane route over the British Isles, lol 😉. You also showed pretty yellow and green fields with planes flying in the background here, wishing you were on one! And, finally, at 8:48 pm that same day, you were recording your thoughts of the "BIG MESS STEP 1!" 😵😵 You had a literal "so bright" start to your hotel room recording, and your first words about the cancellation, followed by a resigned Marie SIGH, made me sad for you and that start 😳😥. I am very glad you were able to get an early Friday morning flight (your message probably was supposed to say instead of Thursday, you would arrive on Friday - such a sad start Marie! And again you needed to book a room, to keep your sweet caring Mom from being too upset and worried about you trying to sleep at CDG! (P.S. I am glad to hear you say "I don't lie to my parents" 😉💕) So, you were then stuck for 2 more nights in Paris. What a huge disappointment and let down after all your excitement had built up, only to fall in front of you 😥😥- I am so sorry that happened to you, Marie 😥. I can understand the pure excitement of returning to the place where you are "very fond of this North American environment" 🥰🥰. I liked that you showed us the barbells , the treadmill, the bicycle machine, and those red boxing bags (😂🤣) - you could have really taken out all your frustrations there, lol, and I assume you did use up some pent up energy ❗Sorry there was no pool, which would have relaxed you. I am so glad you were able to go and see your friend in Paris, first back to CDG, and then the best way on the RER B for 11.45 and a 30-minute trip! 🥰🥰 I truly LOVE that you had a GREAT Thursday (yummy looking cheesecake and other food, and pretty floral light. You even got to see street musicians, and that crazy looking artwork on the street corner, and what was that big woven basket - hmmmm!!? AND, now to Friday the 27th, back to CDG, heading to your gate past Laduree, up the moving sidewalk, past Hermes (Lauduree, Estee Lauder, Clarins, and Lancome?). I really love ❤ the Mustang Magazine you found. When you showed the plane being pushed out to the taxi-way, it was raining (also on your plane's window), and you experienced an hour and a half delay still leaving CDG late. Finally boarding (YAY!!!) United to Chicago and then on to St. Louis. Finally, a "Happy Marie" and a grateful smile (so nice to see after all that) 🥰🥰! What a weird yellow tint on the airplane windows 😲. Your flight above the clouds had some nice views, and you were cruising nicely at 11, 582 m, flying at 878 kph with a 72 kph headwind against you, and an outside temp of -43 degrees C - unreal temperature!!! So, you are heading to your destination as you showed us Chicago, or Chi-Town, from the air next to the lake above that yellow town 🤣🤣, and then you posted "hectic trip was back" 😵😥😳!! What a truly complete mess all those people were, heading through a single door for passport entrance into the country (at least the guy helping was cool), and all this at the busiest airport in the United States ❗That guy said "you may miss your flight", and sure enough, Marie DID MISS her flight AGAIN, in Chicago this time 😵😥😥 ("worst experience ever" you said, and I understand!). Your happy look suddently turned to resignation when you heard that Marie 😥. So you attempted a "Stand By" strategy next (Marie, you are so nicely persistent and hopeful 🥰🥰 - please come with me on my next trip and rub some of that off onto me) 😂! You did show us St. Louis finally from the air, and then your hotel (where you learned that you forgot your tripod). You went through CDG cancellation, then are 1st to check in the next flight, watched a movie before taking off, saw a one-hour thousand people delay at the passport checking station in O'Hare, then the 1.5 hour delay there, and MISSED YOUR FLIGHT again and had to REBOOK a flight (You did a truly cool job of turning the video into back and white every time a terrible part of the BIG MESS popped up and landed on you!! 😉. You then waited an hour to rebook, and found yourself behind Kevyn for the first seat (OH NO!!!)! All those seats were full, and look at that, a person missed the flight and actually allowed Marie onto a flight to St. Louis!!!!!!! I love it that you RAN to that plane Marie ❤🥰 YAY!! That is so nice your friend got you a nice Turkey sandwish and potato puffs when you were picked up and taken to your hotel at 3-4 am France time (almost one full day after you got to CDG - WOW 😲😵😴!!) You are really the epitome of an amazing Trooper and good sport to go through all that complete disaster or two or three, and come out smiling as beautifully and sweetly as ever Marie! 🥰🥰🤗❤ I loved the final FrenchTastic plane flying over the St. Louis Arch! Oh Marie, thank you for a super intriguing tale of woe in this excellent video, and for sharing your disappointment and triumphs. 💕 Now, please have the most wonderful weekend of your traveling life today and tomorrow, and TAKE CARE of my sweet friend, Marie 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Mid-West next on the docket! Looking forward to seeing how your trip went. I suspect LOTS of driving and many picturesque videos will be on the way! Getting creative with the editing too is cool 🥳🤠
Welcome back Marie....(belated)...😊 looking forward to seeing where your travels take you this time. You are pretty close to the middle of the country so your choices are endless. Hope it wasnt to hot for you, its kind of peak heat in late july early august thoughout the country.
So the windows were yellow because you were flying on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner that has windows that electronically dim. You can use the window setting to choose between I believe 5 options of darkness. Sometimes the flight crew can prevent you from changing the color/dimness as well. On my recent British Airways flight they kept them fully dim the entire flight. IDK if yellow is correct or if that may have just been an issue with the dimming feature in your specific window.
The delays is something I’m hearing a lot since 2020, I can’t imagine. I’ve never had a delay but never flew after 2020. Glad you made it through their nonsense. I have been enjoying your Quebec videos. I’m from Texas and in college when I lived up north me and my friends went to Montreal 4 times but Quebec City 0 times 😭 it looks so beautiful.
Hiya Marie 😃 ✈️ "Back in America Right back where I belong" 🎶 What you went through with those delays was frustrating & disappointing but no matter what you always prove that having an easy going & tenacious attitude wins through & a extra day in Paris didn't seem so bad , turning lemons into lemonade , some cool pics & a cute 🐈 with a wicker basket that my cats would also really like. Yay!!! It must have felt great to finally be your way , with some scrumptious truffles 😋 , it looked like you flew over my neck of the woods ,the yellow windows are kinda unusual , it's a colour that's usually avoided maybe they reduce the UV so you don't have to pull down the shutters & they can't afford the adjustable tainted ones. We could have tell you that O'Hare airport would be that hectic it doesn't have the best reputation , why does it have cost so more just to fly directly to St Louis . Anyway it's awesome you experienced another side of the states your unfamiliar with , it's always been known as the gateway to the West going back to the pioneers. I wonder if anything took you by surprise & found any favourite places . Looking forward along with y'all to finding out soon. Merci beaucoup bon weekend 💗 🖐️✨
I bet you slept well after that ordeal. I can't imagine the amount of stress you went through, especially after traveling through multiple timezones! You're a real trooper. Patience is definitely a virtue during these kinds of situations. Bon weekend! 🌞✈️🌎🍻
Bonjour Marie! So sorry that you had so many issues on this voyage. I hope it gets better (but something in your preview looked concerning!) Hope that you are well. Bonne journee! ~Be Blessed
Hi lovely Marie. I'm sad that you had an exhausting and hectic first few days of your trip. However, I'm glad you are safe and I hope you have a great time, again and again, and again in all your travels. Stay happy🙏🏻🤗💙
Your biggest problem was flying on United. They are almost always late. Next time, try Delta. They are the highest rated of the big 3 (United, American, Delta).
Welcome back Marie to your home away from home! Btw, your videos have become so professional (complete with music, graphics, superb cinematography, etc) that I'm just waiting for you to start producing and directing feature films for the box office!
I wishTWA hadn’t imploded after the 9/11 attacks. St. Louis was its world headquarters, and had direct international flights to many European destinations, including Paris. You’d have had none of those headaches. Glad you experienced my home town.
Hello Marie, happy to have you back in America! We welcome you here anytime with open arms!!!🤗 Be well,be safe. From California U.S.A, your friend "Eddie"🙋♂️👋💕
I always enjoy your choice of music. The instrumental you put behind the flight is just sooo late 1970s American TV romantic comedy theme music, and how you matched it with flying over Chicago, that was on point.
For several generations St. Louis was settled by settlers from New France (Canada). US purchased Louisiana in 1803 & slowly the culture shifted to Americans & later many German speaking immigrants.
Such horrible luck you have when you fly to the United States. I have a solution for those problems....Never leave the United States. We're always happy to integrate beautiful women such as yourself into our society. You're ALWAYS welcome to stay. 🤗
Hmm...I know the feeling. My wife and I and twin sons had a delayed connecting flight to CDG and were repeatedly told we would make our connection. Wrong! We missed our return Air France flight to the U.S. Unfortunately, our luggage did NOT miss the flight. So we spent an August night at an airport hotel room with no air conditioning, and located right next to an active runway, with no change of clothes. We've had better trips.
Chicago is building a new international terminal, but it won't be ready before 2028. Once it's built, there will be direct walkways to Terminals 1 and 3 for United and American after security. But, until then, connecting through Chicago will be a mess. It might have been easier to connect through Toronto, as you can clear US customs in several Canadian cities, but you might need to clear Canadian customs.
Flying anywhere in the world is a pain these days. Too many people flying, ticket prices too low, strikes in Europe, not enough air traffic controllers, pilots, etc. With global warming, so many people flying need to re-evaluate how much unnecessary air travel contributes to that problem. Until we have electric airplanes with really long extension cords we need to stop.
Happy you finally made it! I know that city very well. I might be funny to compare the local pronunciation of French words with their real pronunciation. Enjoy your time!
You could have done the American thing and rented a car to drive to St.Louis. It's probably less than 6 hours by car. Shoot, go deep native and rent a 4 wheel drive pickup truck.
United Airlines, go figure. Or course it can happen to any airlines but it seems to happen more on some others. So, if you are going all over the US does this mean you will be using St. Louis as your central location? Or just doing a region wide exploration? I would say come to my area but I know everyone does that. You may get here eventually. Glad to have you back Marie.
My last airplane trip was also chaotic....a passenger became belligerent and the pilot threatened that if he did not settle down, he would fly us not to Phoenix but to Nashville! Because we were late to Phoenix, we had five minutes to race to another gate to get to the next connecting gate across the concourse. Then the next plane had air conditioning issues so we sat on the plane for 45 minutes while it was trying to be fixed. No luck. We had to deplane for a different plane, delaying us even more. Arrival at home was at 3 am...four hours after expected. Nightmare trip also! Love to you, welcome back! ❤
I hope watching your video doesn't jinx my trip back, because happily I am in Europe not the US :). Chicago is almost always a nightmare; I go through it all the time and I feel your pain (fingers crossed for next week). The hotel here in Ireland was not happy with my 00:15 arrival after delays out of Amsterdam. I see we are both travelling United lol, if I see your plane, I will wave :). I hope you have a great visit and much smoother flights to come.
Welcome home, now please do not leave the USA anymore you belong here and everyone loves you. You must go to Las Vegas and see the Sphere and because you spend so much time here you will forget to speak French so go to the Aria Hotel Crystal Shops and then you can practice your French because all the Shops are French.
I learned over a quarter of a century ago to never use Chicago O'Hare for connecting flights. Lufthansa flies directly to St Louis. Better to fly that route
Huge, huge problem, not enough air traffic controllers Mega Huge issue. Then the airlines have to contend with delayed planes full of passengers backing up traffic on the tarmac. The pilots are having to mislead passengers with all sorts of excuses that are made up, because they are not allowed to tell the truth. This is huge issue. They are unwilling to pay more for more traffic control employees, thus no one wants the job of being an ATC, they are running thin to start with. This is a huge government issue and they won't fix it. Almost every flight is delayed and it stacks up on itself to a even bigger problem world wide for air traffic. They could truly fix it but they are unwilling to put forth the resources. When you hear technical issues -- this is it in a nutshell.
I got bumped off a connecting flight once when traveling across country but I only had to wait 2 hours for another flight, nothing like you had to endure. So sorry you had such a rough journey but I hope you enjoyed the rest of your trip!
Kid when you get here in the USA forget the planes unless you are heading coast to coast rent a car and check out the small towns. Big cities have some appeal but I have always loved the little cities and towns more so than large metropolitan areas. You enjoy yourself and in the late spring head to Michigan’s upper peninsula stay safe.
Glad you can roll with the punches. I’ve driven through St Louis once. The arch is cool. The underground museum and the elevators to the top are unique. Great view as well. I hope you got to do that!
There does seem to be an argument for not going with the cheapest provider in air transport. They are generally not your home carriers. I've tried it a couple of times and there are reasons why I wouldn't try it again. I survived the experiences, but not sure I wanted to.
There was a time you could fly standby, for half fare and usually get to your destination without camping out in a an airport. Boy does that date me. Looking forward to the content when you get there.
