Day 121 - Drama Summary

Bullets points of the bag drama:

- Brian arrived in Dallas but missed his connecting flight by 10 minutes because of a wrong turn at the airport.
- His checked bag went on plane without him.
- Booked another flight, arrived in Washington but not sure what happened to his bag. Where is it? Which airport? Calling them is useless, automated answering.
- I'm travelling to meet Brian in Charlottesville but get off at Washington instead to join him.
- Book hotel for the night.
- Airport finds his bag. Brian gives address of hotel we are staying at but they send to other hotel he stayed at the previous night.
- Next morning we go to the previous hotel to collect it. The bag is not there. He shows them a picture the airport sent us of the bag literally in front of their check-in desk. Still they deny having it.
- What to do? We sit around the lobby for half an hour considering options. We discuss buying all new gear in town and claiming insurance for lost luggage.
- Eventually the hotel clerk slithers up to us and lets us know the bag was sent back to the airport (I assume because Brian was no longer a guest when they received it).
- Brian calls the airport, yes they have the bag (why didn't they inform him???). Where shall we send it? No, DO NOT SEND IT ANYWHERE, he is coming to get it.
- Brian travels to airport an hour away to collect it.

Other problems that occurred during the same time period:

- Went to see the space shuttle at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. It's not there. Instead it's at a "sister building" outside of the city.
- Train to Charlottesville was two hours late.
- Hotel in Charlottesville only had one room instead of the two we booked.
- I whimsically ordered a desert when I wasn't very hungry and it turned out to be a huge serving. Big effort to stuff it all in.
- Brian can't buy Sudafed over here. It's restricted because it can be used to make meth (source: Breaking Bad)Read more