Thurs June 28
• Leave Fitch house 8:15 am PT
• Arr SFO 9:15 am PT (did the Fisherman’s Wharf/Union Sq tour on Super Shuttle)
• 10:45 flight delayed to 3:15 pm PT(stood in line for TWO hours at customer service to re-schedule ORD-RSW which was brilliant b/c waiting til ORD, all flights would have been booked)
• Arr ORD (O’Hare) 9:18 pm CT. Stand in line at customer service to waitlist on 6:31am flight to Charlotte (CLT?)
Attempt sleep 11:30-5 (those recordings about leaving your luggage unattended indeed go all flippin night)
Fri June 29
Got on Charlotte flight which miraculously left ON TIME (or I was so tired I didn’t notice)
Got on standby list for CLT – RSW, supposed to leave at 10:15 am ET, left at 2-ish (by this time, who cares)
Arr RSW 3:30 pm ET. Had to wait for all bags to come off to prove to the nice woman they hadn’t made the same flights I did.
Pick up Baru Bear the Big Dog. Arrive home around 5 pm ET. 29.75 hours later. I think
Sat June 30
6:45 am ET: phone rings--the nice man from the courier company is close by with one suitcase from US Airways (I flew United but was re-routed via US Airways ORD-CLT-RSW)
10 am: Woman with heavy accent calls from United in RSW. (I have to spell out the name of my street including "Box.") They have my other bag and it will be delivered between 11:30 and 3.
12:15 pm The nice man from the courier company calls, sounding a bit confused. "I have a bag from United for you--wasn't I just there with one from US Airways?"
Everything works out in the end. Now that wasn't so bad was it? I still wonder if the guy ahead of me in line ever got to Paris. Last I heard, he left SFO on Thursday and he expected to get to Frankfurt on Sunday, with no idea how he'd get to Paris where he started school on Monday. He said, "I feel like I am in the middle of what will some day be a great story."
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