Are Anyone Else's Travel Plans Getting Screwed Up?

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Yesterday my mom and my stepfather were supposed to come pick me up and take me to their house along with my assistant for the holidays. This failed because of two things, one there was a blizzard. And two, their van broke down. No big deal, I am used to travel related drama, so after some discussion it is decided that my assistant and I will take the train home today. We leave the house around noon for a train that is supposed to leave at two fifty. Midway through the ride I realized I had left my medicine at my house. I can't survive on no medicine for a week. So I call my other assistant and ask her to run the medicine out to me, all the way in Springfield. She agrees. We continue on our journey. We get to the train station and I am feeling slightly frazzled, but okay. Then we find out our train is two and a half hours late. Later we discovered that this was because the Vermont train crew had been stuck all night trying to get to Vermont and hadn't had a break. And as there was no other train crew, Amtrak decided to delay everything because you don't want tired people driving trains. But a two and a half hour delay means I would miss the connection between Philly and Harrisburg where my parents live. At this point, I am about to panic. I call my mom who's staying at my Grandma's house helping her with something for a few hours. And she, after calling my stepfather, tells me to go back home and she'll be up with my stepfather and the repaired van tomorrow afternoon. At this point, I call the van service and beg them to take me back home, which I wasn't scheduled to do, and normally they won't take same day reservations. But as this was an emergency, they helped me out. Then I tried to call my assistant and tell her not to bring my meds because I was coming home anyway. But she forgot to bring her phone in her rush to give the medicine to me and make sure nothing happened. I think this trip is cursed and I am hoping to figure out what the Universe is trying to tell me before something disastrous happens. What about you? Are your travel plans getting screwed up, or are you having smooth sailing?