Lost at MSP

We took a quick weekend trip to Minneapolis-Saint Paul ("the Twin Cities"). We had an easy flight--just under three hours--and enjoyed watching John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum.

Our first adventure occurred almost immediately upon deplaning at MSP. We had all our luggage, so the next question was, where to pick up a Lyft?

We landed at Terminal 1-Lindbergh, but the Lyft app told us we had to meet their drivers outside the purple garage at Terminal 2-Humphrey. First we walked the wrong way in Terminal 1, then we took the elevators down to the basement. We were going to catch the tram to Terminal 2, but were told we needed to take the light rail. While searching for the light rail, we found this parking lot for little go carts:

We finally found the light rail and took it to Terminal 2-Humphrey (we could have stayed onboard and visited the Mall of the Americas, oh boy). It was unclear how to get from the "train station" into the parking lot, but we finally did--and then realized we were in the orange lot, not the purple lot. We asked some flight attendants we passed, but they didn't know how to get to the purple lot. We finally found our way out of the orange lot and were going to head into Terminal 2, when we realized that if we walked along the edge of the orange lot, we'd end up at the purple lot. Here is Matt (far left) making that trudge:

Here is a map that might have been handy if we'd found it during our adventure. We walked back and forth and up and down in Terminal 1 (upper right), took the dotted line (the light rail) to the orange parking lot of Terminal 2, where we also walked back and forth and up and down. Finally, we walked along the terminal side of the orange lot, found the purple lot, walked along the terminal side of it, and then ended up at the purple lot's far left corner, where we were able to call Lyft.

Map from the Internet

Much to our dismay, the Lyft driver who returned us to the airport at the end of the weekend showed us where the app should have told us to go to pick up a Lyft at Terminal 1. Nowhere near the purple garage, of course.