My bags took a left turn at Albuquerque
Last week in New Mexico we were making all the predictable jokes about making this wrong turn at Albuquerque, and indeed on our way to Shiprock, we did make a wrong turn. My usually reliable wetware GPS software (in other words my traditionally infalliable sense of direction) completely abandoned me last week.
The worst however was saved for the trip home. While I came home on United via Denver, the harried ticket agent at the the counter somehow checked my bags to Denver and then on to San Francisco and Incheon, South Korea. Under the name Ji Yoon Kim.
Luckily United has a pretty good bag tracker system and it seems that my bag has been located and is due to return to Vancouver on flight 1116 from San Francisco, thence by truck and ferry over land and sea to me.
[…] The whole thing is pretty manageable, and contains everything I need to work, exercise, play and amuse myself on long flights. It all goes on my back when I am walking between the ferry and my home, which is a mile through forest and along rural roads, and it all rolls nicely along airport and hotel floors. I have literally been living out of this bag for a month, at home and on the road, (with the exception of the three days the bag was in Korea) only changing around the clothes when I get home, switching dirty for clean. All told, a tidy little set up, and a nice reminder of how little I actually need to work and live with. March 27, 2008 | In Travel | […]