Travel Woes
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Katrina and I had a wonderful trip to California. It was truly great to be able to take the time to relax and chill with friends and family. Usually our visits are so short and busy that we get very little rest and feel like we need a vacation when it's over. But not this time. It was great to reconnect with old friends too. I have only one complaint about our trip... it was too long. Not because I missed "home" (wherever that may be), rather I began to feel 'too' comfortable in California. The awkwardness of visiting and living out of a suitcase wore off as California began to feel like home again. Not good, because it made returning to DC that much more difficult. Rather than having that release of tension upon returning home, I felt awkward for a few days... as if I were visiting here! I had also forgotten how beautiful California is and really noticed it after arriving in the DC area. Washington may be a cool town, but the area sure is ugly. Especially during the winter.
So during my homesickness for Cali I was reminded of a passage from Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. If you haven't read this book yet, you must!
While this may not apply to my current situation, I certainly saw the truth in that statement after moving cross country a year and a half ago.
The return trip was difficult for another reason. Our original flight was canceled... why, I don't know. So we were put on another flight. Then that one was canceled. This one, because there was no crew for the plane. As we were boarding the third flight, I discovered that our luggage would not be ending up at the same airport. So I refused to go on this flight, insisting on staying with our luggage. (and after hearing the horror stories about lost luggage, I'm glad I did). Our fourth flight wasn't canceled, it was only delayed. In all we wasted 7 hours waiting in airports and got home at 2am. Which isn't nearly as bad as some of the stories I've heard since, but still frustrating. If I hadn't gotten free upgrades, I would probably never fly United again. That, and you can only be so picky when looking for the cheapest flights... :-p
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Kudos to actress Sandra Bullock who personally donated $1 million to the Red Cross for tsunami relief. Its not often that I admire an actor/actress, but that is damn cool.
Katrina and I had a wonderful trip to California. It was truly great to be able to take the time to relax and chill with friends and family. Usually our visits are so short and busy that we get very little rest and feel like we need a vacation when it's over. But not this time. It was great to reconnect with old friends too. I have only one complaint about our trip... it was too long. Not because I missed "home" (wherever that may be), rather I began to feel 'too' comfortable in California. The awkwardness of visiting and living out of a suitcase wore off as California began to feel like home again. Not good, because it made returning to DC that much more difficult. Rather than having that release of tension upon returning home, I felt awkward for a few days... as if I were visiting here! I had also forgotten how beautiful California is and really noticed it after arriving in the DC area. Washington may be a cool town, but the area sure is ugly. Especially during the winter.
So during my homesickness for Cali I was reminded of a passage from Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. If you haven't read this book yet, you must!
You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.
While this may not apply to my current situation, I certainly saw the truth in that statement after moving cross country a year and a half ago.
The return trip was difficult for another reason. Our original flight was canceled... why, I don't know. So we were put on another flight. Then that one was canceled. This one, because there was no crew for the plane. As we were boarding the third flight, I discovered that our luggage would not be ending up at the same airport. So I refused to go on this flight, insisting on staying with our luggage. (and after hearing the horror stories about lost luggage, I'm glad I did). Our fourth flight wasn't canceled, it was only delayed. In all we wasted 7 hours waiting in airports and got home at 2am. Which isn't nearly as bad as some of the stories I've heard since, but still frustrating. If I hadn't gotten free upgrades, I would probably never fly United again. That, and you can only be so picky when looking for the cheapest flights... :-p
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Kudos to actress Sandra Bullock who personally donated $1 million to the Red Cross for tsunami relief. Its not often that I admire an actor/actress, but that is damn cool.
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