Thursday 20 August 2015

Interesting Travel Day

TRAVEL DAY

5:50am - Bus Shuttle from Whistler Vancouver
3 Hour Shuttle
7 Hour Wait at airport for flight because I mixed up am and pm.
1.5 Hour Flight Delay
5.5 Hour Flight to JFK, new York ( Slept for 1 Hour )
Train to Baggage Storage
7 Hours before next flight which left at 6pm
1 Hour Train to New York City
Met Jay (A rad guy I met on Spinlister.com to borrow his road bike)
Rode down Central Park top to bottom, Times Square to Soho where I tracked down John Bleeker's Pizzaria, (Best Pizza in NYC Award)
Funny menu, don't get me wrong it was big and tasty but it cost me $34+$3TipUSD ($50AUD)
Rode straight back through mid town via Trader Joes to buy some beloved #CookieButter to get on the first train at 1.45pm, exactly as planned.
BUT THEN The trains got delayed!
Got to luggage storage, and after having to get cash out since it was cash only I had my bags and it was 3.30pm!
Caught train to my terminal
1 Hour till my flight
I Got through American Airlines Chaos check in (People crying every where with exploding bags)
I had a really nice check in lady that said that both my bike and bag were 2kg's over each. So I took a jumper out and put it in my other bag :/
Then due to a miss communication, I got the labels off another lady and through my bags went though after I grabbed another handfull of clothes out the check in bag. At this point it my flight was boarding.
Got the express line through customs, still had to do the whole shoes off, stand in the tube, bend over and cough.
Oh great my bag is getting searched.
They pull out the 2 jars of unopened cookie butter that I forgot about.
"Fine Bin it my flight was boarding 5 minuets ago"
Re-packed my bag with my laptop (At this point I still hadn't had my my post NYC Commute Protein!)
Ran as hard as I could looking like a dude with a bomb.
Just got on the plane, sweating everywhere
Still in my cycling jersey and nix just to grow mushrooms for the fun of it. (Yes I was wearing baggies over the top)
Plane turns off
Get Delayed for 3 hours
So everyone got off the plane.
13 Hour Flight (Didn't Sleep)
landed at 9am
6 Hours catching 2 Trains to Finale Ligure (Slept a little)
Got all my shit out to the street
Picked up by my AirBnB host
I was hungry, So I had to build up my bike to ride down the mountain to buy a Calzone Pizza and buy some groceries from the SPAR - All I found was Nutella, Biscotti and eggs :/
Rode back up the hill
Got to bed at 9pm





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