Must Dash: A trip round Latin America: New York I love you, but you're bringing me down

Monday, 2 July 2012

New York I love you, but you're bringing me down

So British Airways has lost our luggage. It's now nearly 8pm and we're still in JFK airport when we should have been out by 3.30. No one is telling us anything.

The delay is more annoying than the lost luggage right now because i just want to get on with my holiday. I had planned on eating a hot dog, a steak and a deli sandwich by now. Instead i have eaten chewing gum.

Unless someone gets their finger out soon and brings me my bag it looks like i am even less prepared for 5 months in South America than i thought. I have a jacket, jeans, a kindle and a camera. Bring it on.

Here's a photo of Dave and I with our combined luggage.

1 comment:

Unknown5 July 2012 at 13:21
Good work! Take it you got luggage eventually?
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Things that have went wrong

1. Luggage didn't arrive on our flight so we had to wait until the next afternoon to get it.
2. Going on a group excursion to watch 4th July fireworks but after less than 30 seconds getting split from the group because we detoured to get some cans of beer and didn't know where they were going.
3. Turning up for my 1 o'clock flight to Alabama at 12.45 (but i still got on). Meanwhile Dave meeting some crazies on the NY public transport.
4. Paying $16 for a taxi to Cancun because we were told there were no buses for another 2.5 hours.
5. Being led to a bar we didn't want to go to in Havana and having to buy drinks, including one for his rotten wife.
6. Being told we were getting dinner for 15CUC total and then being charged 15CUC each but being unable to argue it. A prostitute trying to get business during said meal.
7. All our shit being stolen at the beach in Havana, followed by Dave having to ride a police car (Lada) for over 3 hours being unable to communicate with them and the reason for the trip remaining unclear.
8. Turning up for our bus to Trinidad and being told we were at the wrong station so having to get a taxi to another one. We missed the bus and had to pay 25% fee for the next one which then turned up and the first stop was the original station.
9. My clothes coming back from the laundry service bright pink.