voyage to mars
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
  The good news: I didn't have to wait long in Stockholm. The bad news: I just finished a seven hour cross-country road trip of Sweden in a cramped, crowded, and hot bus. Thus the trip from New York to Oslo - usually a pleasant jaunt at little over ten hours in total, door to door, taxi rides and all - took me more than twenty hours. I still feel it's a miracle that I actually made it home, and while I generally respect workers' rights, I don't quite see how the air-traffic controllers can justify their actions. It's not as though I can do anything about their situation, and making life difficult for everyone - not just those who have a say in the matter - is the cheapest form of blackmail there is.

Still, I got home safe and sound, no bones broken or luggage lost, so I can't complain. Tomorrow: back to work. I can't wait.  17:33  
Comments:
I respect their rights also, but potentially ruining a vacation for someone who has been saving and/or waiting for two years is not a fair way of... getting their way.

welcome back, btw.
# posted by monger : 12:00 PM
 
Sidenote: I spent 40 hours getting from Seattle to Dublin once. Flight was delayed out of Seattle to San Francisco, once there a jerk booked me on a new flight and put me in a hotel. Turned out next morning that my flight left at 9.30 - from NEW YORK! So I had to wait for the afternoon flight out of SF to London, stay on stand-by for two hours there (because for some reason it seemed they couldn't book me on to Dublin since I had already been delayed once (or twice, depending on how you count). So I got there 40 hours after leaving SeaTac, and had to head straight to work, jet-lagged and ugly.

toremygg
# posted by Anonymous : 5:30 PM
 
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