A New Jersey man upended his life by jumping in to drive his family over 1000 miles when their flight was cancelled.
Nathan Montanez had just dropped his wife and two kids at the airport to begin their trip to Disney World, but United Airlines cancelled their flight to Florida—and any rebooking meant they wouldn’t get to leave on their vacation for two days.
Jill Tobin-Montanez told GNN that she had been planning this trip for months. Nathan, who works in supply chain operations had to work, so wasn’t even going on the trip. 15 minutes before departure, the flight was cancelled—and there were no ticket options for days.
“I explained to my kids that sometimes life gives you lemons—and we’d try again to get to Disney another time,” she recalled.
Suddenly Jill’s husband messaged her that he was back at the airport and they should meet him outside.
“When we got in the car, all defeated, he asked if we were ready to go. We said ‘yup,’ thinking we were going home. Then he told us to get ready for a long drive.”
“He then put the song ‘On the Road Again’ on the radio and told us he was driving us to Disney!”
Nathan proceeded to drive 17 hours straight so they wouldn’t miss a day in the Magic Kingdom.
The car pulled into Orlando a little after midnight, and he turned around just a few hours later and headed back to New Jersey so he could get to work on Tuesday—only missing one day.
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“This dad is our rock!” Jill exclaimed.
“Not many people in this world would do that. And the kids absolutely appreciate what he did for them.”
“They haven’t stopped talking about him,” she wrote in an email, signing off as ‘the wife to one amazing dad!’
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Hahaha, he doesn’t look so thrilled…..Man, what a guy!!!
What a dad who deserves a great 4th and a vacation of his own.