[tei-council] 35.3 hours

[Hugh Cayless]

Ugh. Worse than mine, which only took about 29 hours. Connecting flight canceled, so spent the night in New York then flew home via Charlotte. Almost missed my connection there, but made it. 

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> On Jul 4, 2014, at 14:27, Syd Bauman <syd at paramedic.wwp.northeastern.edu> wrote:
> 
> That's how long it took me to get home. I left 37 Wellington Square
> at ~05:48 +01. I got home ~2.2 hours ago, at 12:06 -04. Highlights of
> this comedy of errors include 1 delayed flight, 2 cancelled flights,
> several bits of mis-information from United staff, what little free
> wireless there is at EWR not working, > 4 hours of waiting on various
> lines at EWR, ~1.5 hours of waiting on hold for United phone
> assistance, listening to a 20-something year old princess headed to
> West Palm Beach tell the United desk agent that "I have to be on that
> flight -- it can't leave without me ... tomorrow is my birthday and I
> can't be traveling in my birthday", a power failure in EWR terminal
> C, lightning over the runway, inability to get food while at EWR for
> fear of losing place on line, both Amtrak trains from EWR to PVD
> already full, connecting with a very nice fellow also heading towards
> Providence while on line to get assistance re-booking (which we never
> got), being told it would take a minimum of 2 hours to retrieve our
> luggage (which I not only haven't gotten yet, United hasn't even
> found it yet), renting a car with said fellow and driving as far as
> Groton CT, staying overnight in a hotel (~4 hrs sleep), and (when I
> finally got to my car) finding that I had left a door ajar, and thus
> the battery was stone dead.
> 
> I hope others had better travel experiences than I.
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