No plane, no train, one automobile: Team Homan scrambles to get to the World Championship

It wasn't exactly the horror show that the Steve Martin and the late John Candy went through in "Planes, Trains And Automobiles."

Still, the glorious life of a traveling curling team was shown to be less than one hundred per cent glamourous when Team Homan embarked on its trip to represent Canada at the 2014 World Womens Curling Championship.

With the host city, Saint John, New Brunswick, being walloped by a late winter storm, Rachel Homan and her teammates Emma Miskew, Alison Kreviazuk and Lisa Weagle had to scramble to make it down East.

Chronicling the adventure in a series of tweets, it all started with the inevitable 'hurry up and wait':

That sign did, in fact, lead to some sleeping at the airport, as well as the beginnings of a travelers guide to best aiport benches to sleep on:

With their flight cancelled, perhaps a train would have been a good option, but the team opted to go right past that possibility and straight to the road trip:

There seemed to be no problems on the road. At least, nothing like this:

After hours on the road, a sign of hope. Or, at least, of New Brunswick:

Then, they tweet that all is well:

Not exactly the smooth sailing of, say, Super Bowl teams arriving via private jet. Whether the grind of an unexpected road trip has any effect on the Canadian champs, we'll see in their first game versus Russia on Saturday. Homan's team - along with Sweden's - is the overwhelming favourite to be in the gold medal game in a little over a week. (My preview of the tournament can be found here)