Timor by numbers
Since I wasn't able to access the blog while I was on mission, I couldn't provide any updates. In the absence of anything qualitative, here's something quantitative. My trip in numbers:
Travel time: 118hrs 45 minutes (79hrs 45 en route, 39hrs return)
Distance traveled: 26,016 miles (more than once around the globe)
Countries visited: 4
Time on the ground in Timor: 168 hrs
Suitcases: 0
Security checkpoints: Lost count
Retarded airline excuses: Really lost count
Bureaucratic reports produced: 1
Cost of the trip: $15,300
Years off my life due to stress: unknown
So it wasn't a great trip, frankly.
posted by E @ 10:28 AM
2 Comments:
Unless it will bring back the stress - is there any chance of getting a sample of some of the retarded airline excusess?
(On the other hand, you may want to hang on to those - one of last year's bestselling books in Sweden was a collection of notes left by people in various apartment blocks' communal washrooms.)
The excuses weren't amusing or creative in any way, just ridiculous. For example, the idea that 45 minutes is insufficient time to transfer a bag from an Emirates flight to another Emirates flight in the same terminal, in their OWN AIRPORT, is insane. I also got a lot of word games about reservations being made but not confirmed, confirmed but not ticketed... blah blah. Nothing I could create an amusing anecdote out of, I'm afraid.
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