ROAD TRIP! A canceled flight led to a van rental and memories to last a lifetime.
Remember that movie “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”? The one where Steve Martin and John Candy get stranded in Kansas by their airline, then join forces to get to Chicago in time for Thanksgiving?
The adventure began when a Dec. 4 Frontier Airlines flight from Orlando to Knoxville, Tennessee got canceled. Fellow passenger Alanah Story told “Today” that a woman named Amy floated the idea of renting a van. Multiple people urgently needed to get to Knoxville — like a high school student scheduled to visit her dream college, the University of Tennessee and another traveler helping a friend move internationally — and eventually, the group coalesced.
The crew rented a 15-person van from the airport’s Hertz counter and assigned each person a number so they could keep track of everyone at rest stops. Story introduced the gang to her 180,000 followers on TikTok just before they hit the road:
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