I am in Canada

[fivemack]

My luggage, however, y-compris the Useful Folder of Bits of Paper containing the details of my travel insurance for such events as my luggage parting company with me, is not. I thought that the transit process at Chicago, which consisted of being told 'ah, Air Canada, stick it in this pile', was a little lackadaisical.

Air Canada assure me that they have found the luggage, and tell me it should arrive tomorrow; until it does, I'm relying on papersky's hospitality in the matter of spare toothbrushes, loaned fleece trousers and the like. In any case, I have a credit card, clothing is not hard to come by during the end-of-year sales in Montreal, and it's possible that the travel insurance will buy the clothing for me and repay papersky handsomely for the use of her spare toothbrush.

As to the date and time on this message, I've travelled eleven timezones eastwards and crossed the International Date Line since the last one; this is the second 29th December 2005 that I've experienced since waking up.

Comments

[janetmk.livejournal.com]

What a marvelous travel you've had. I've enjoyed reading your dispatches. I'm glad you've made it safely to Montreal. Sorry your luggage is lagging behind.

My suitcase was just delivered to my door a few minutes ago. A bunch of suitcases didn't make it onto the airplane when I flew home from Detroit this morning. The baggage services office was a bit crowded. But we were processed quickly and told the suitcases would probably arrive on the next flight and be delivered to us later today. I was given a $25 credit voucher.

[annafdd.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor Tom. The Lost Baggage is my ever-present air travel nightmare. Only once the bag never again turned up, but that was going through Malpensa, a notorious thieves-infested airport. Every time since that my bag went somewhere else it finally caught up with me.

It's probably a good thing that, if you had to have a bag misplaced, it happened on this leg. :-)

Happy new Year to all of you, and see you in UK.

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

The luggage is recovered; and, indeed, much better to have it vanish between Chicago and Montreal than between Selaparang airport in Lombok and Ngurah Rai airport in Denpasar.

Happy new year, Anna! I'd love to see you in the UK sometime; it's just that I think you got to London a few days after I reached India ...

[emperor]

Ooops. I hope it turns up.