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Tom Womack ([personal profile] fivemack) wrote2005-12-29 09:44 pm

I am in Canada

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 [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] 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.

[identity profile] fivemack.livejournal.com 2005-12-30 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
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 ...