CROSSDRESSING OBSTACLES

My regular readers and subscribers are familiar with all of my travel adventures but not the crossdressing obstacles that I sometimes experience. In general I keep my posts positive and in some cases humorous if at all possible. I think of myself as a positive person for the most part and forge ahead when I encounter some type of crossdressing obstacle. It occurred to me that my readers think that every adventure just falls together naturally and comes out perfect every time. I thought it would be interesting for me to recount some of the crossdressing obstacles that I have experienced and pushed through for an overall good time.

This last trip to Las Vegas started off well when I got a good parking place at the airport followed by a quick trip through TSA along with an upgrade to 1st class and a smooth flight to my connecting airport. Then double good luck when I was again upgraded to 1st class on the Portland to Vegas leg of my trip. Not even the noisy party revelers that boarded in Portland bothered me on the smooth flight. I don’t know if they all came together or met on the plane but all were feeling no pain and whooping it up the whole flight.

ENTER THE CROSSDRESSING OBSTACLES

About 40 minutes from Vegas the pilot comes on and tells us we have been put on a ATC hold. The air traffic control (ATC) hold is because Vegas is down to one runway for some reason. Shortly thereafter the pilot tells us we are being diverted to Fresno airport. This happened to me a couple of years back when we took on fuel and were back on our way within a hour. We landed and the pilot promised to keep us posted on when the hold would be lifted. This is where the crossdressing obstacle takes shape when we find out we will be there for 4 hours. I called my hotel and informed them of my delay and went in search of some food and ended up with protein bars.

Almost to the minute we complete our layover and take off for Vegas getting in around 8:30 instead of 4:00pm. Arriving at the hotel at 9:00 I found myself sitting at the bar in Giada’s restaurant munching on the meatball appetizer with a glass of wine. I was tired and did not feel like spending $100.00 on a fancy dinner then going to bed right away. I did not even bother unpacking after returning to my room and was in bed by 10:00pm.

The crossdressing obstacle behind me I unpacked the next morning and went shopping as Duke instead of Micki due to a late start. This way I can cruise through the mall and see if I find anything I want to try on in which case I can come back on Sunday as Micki. Sometimes I come up empty which was the case this time as nothing clicked with me other than some jewelry I bought which does not require trying on. It also gives me more time to get ready for my much anticipated Friday night dinner at Ferraro’s.

Ferraro’s Friday night was wonderful as I covered in an earlier post and the same with Saturday night at Bistecca Steakhouse with Michelle and Lynnie.

SUNDAY 1/19/25 UPDATE

I forgot about the cappuccino brown purse crossdressing obstacle that went with my Saturday night pumps. I set the purse on the bed so I could move everything from Friday nights purse then continued getting dressed. When the time came to make the switch I noticed 1/8th inch black flecks all over the white bed sheet. At first I could not figure out where it came from so looked at the cappuccino brown purse and found it was disintegrating with all of the patent leather flaking off. Nothing like this has ever happened to me so the planets must have perfectly aligned for this adventure.

With the shopping on Sunday being scratched for lack of product I took the off and made lunch the highlight of my day or, so I thought. Even though I had an afternoon flight on Monday I decided to pack Sunday afternoon because you never know when a crossdressing obstacle might present itself. Just before 5:00PM I heard something for the first time ever in all of my travels coming from the speaker in the ceiling. “THIS IS A SECURITY ALERT LEAVE THE BUILDING IMMEDIATELY” “DO NOT USE THE ELEVATORS USE THE STAIRS ONLY” First I had to like around and find out where the sound was coming from which I did when the message repeated. Like a good citizen I took my key and left my room into the hallway where strobe lights were flashing in the ceiling. I can’t call this a crossdressing obstacle in that I was not dressed or getting ready but it was interesting none the less. So it was down 8 floors of stairs for me eventually finding the front desk. There I asked about the nature of the emergency only to find out they knew nothing about it. So much for communication!

After finding out is was a false alarm and getting the all clear to return to my room I did and finished packing. I was not in the mood to go anywhere fancy for dinner so ate at he bar upstairs at Giada’s again then a phone call to my wife to share my afternoon excitement then early to bed. All was well and sleeping soundly when just before midnight “THIS IS A SECURITY ALERT LEAVE THE BUILDING IMMEDIATELY” “DO NOT USE THE ELEVATORS USE THE STAIRS ONLY” that ain’t good for your heart! I got dressed went down the closer set of stairs onto Las Vegas Blvd. (the strip) to find business as usual. Everyone was just walking around as usual so I wandered into the casino to find people having a great time drinking, gambling, laughing and having a good old time. Seeing a security person in military style uniform with weapons hanging on him and an ear piece I approached and asked him if this was another false alarm. Yes was his response, so I can go back to my room I asked? Yes was his response again.

The guy was not exactly chatty but possibly my appearance took him back especially with Breathe Rite strip on my nose and hair sticking out every which way like the professor from BACK TO THE FUTURE.

Back to bed and fast asleep there were no more crossdresser obstacles the next day and I was off to the airport.

I just wanted to make sure all my readers knew that everyone has crossdressing obstacles and I have not escaped them either.