OT: is anyone following the Mark Sanford wierdness? It seems to be getting stranger and stranger:

First no one knows where he is, including his wife— then someone says he’s hiking the appalachian trail, and now this:

On Tuesday, sources told News 4’s Nigel Robertson that a state vehicle is missing and was tracked down, not to the Appalachian Trail, but to the Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta.

Sources told Robertson that a federal agent spotted Sanford in the airport boarding a plane. Robertson was told that the governor was not accompanied by security detail.

Sanford has been out of reach for more than four days, including Father’s Day.

Sawyer has emphasized that the governor was hiking on the Appalachian Trail and that it wasn’t something the staff or Jenny Sanford were concerned about.

But sources told WYFF News 4 that the federal agent who spotted Sanford saw him at the Atlanta airport, which is about 80 miles from the start of the trail.

WYFF News 4 has not yet confirmed where the plane was going or how the governor got to the airport, but it is clear there are two very different stories.

wyff4.com

It really seems like the story about the AT was hastily made up to explain why he was unreachable. It’s odd that his wife didn’t know he was hiking, even if she didn’t know where. And on Father’s Day weekend?