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The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round |
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Written by Erica Lineberry
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Saturday, 04 June 2005 |
Hello loved ones!
I am apologizing ahead of time because this computer keyboard is very strange. Some of the letters are right where you'd think they'd be, and others are in random spots. I will do my best. It is now Saturday morning, around noon. We are in a quaint hot little town. Yesterday, we spent the day with another family and had a wonderful visit. We took a night bus at 9:00 pm to the town we are in now. We arrived in this town at 4 am, but the hostels were all pretty expensive, especially considering that we just wanted a safe place to crash for a couple of hours or so. We ended up paying around 4 dollars for all of us to sleep downstairs on some couches in the hotel's restaurant. It worked out pretty well, we left around 10:30 or so when folks started coming in to eat there. Today, we set off to have some fun with camels and other touristy things; so, it might be a while before you get an update. Oh, by the way, you can check out a few pictures that we uploaded to the website:
www.thelineberrys.com
AND NOW FOR THE TOP TEN:
TOP TEN USEFUL ITEMS FROM OUR CARRY-ONS:
10. Homemade Trail Mix
9. Water bottles
8. Camera
7. Toothbrush
On second thought, a top ten list of useful items assumes you have 10 items to beging with...
Let's try something else...
TOP TEN MOST FRUSTRATING QUOTES REGARDING LUGGAGE:
10. "We have no information about you're luggage and won't know where it is until it gets
here."
9. Initially: "We will deliver the bags straight to your hostel."
Once 4 bags were confirmed in the airport: "You have to pick them up yourselves
so they can clear customs."
8. 18 hours after we arrived: "We have 1 bag confirmed in Raleigh-Durham, the other 5 are
still lost."
7. "Call us back at 10 pm and we might know more information." (Upon doing so, we
realized the office closes at 10...)
6. In the chuckling broken English of our hostel owner : "Ya wanna see your phone
bill?" (each phone call in Spain is billed separately per minute)
5. Bianca, calling US Air.... "I hope you can make my day better..."
US Air guy... "Then you called the wrong number..."
4. 24 hours after we arrived: "Give us your address in North Africa and we'll deliver
the bags to that address when we find them..."
Bianca: "If you can't get our bags to Spain, what makes you think you can get them to
North Africa?"
Erica: "I'm not leaving the country without a change of underwear."
3. Airline: "Thanks for calling Iberia, what is your reference number?"
Any of us: "SVQIB4...." (then an interruption) "Oh, Lineberrys and Thompsons
again?"
2. Iberia: "The bag confirmed in RDU is being handled by United and will be flown here,
but we don't know the flight number yet."
US Air a few hours later: "That's interesting, because United is the only major US
carrier that does not fly into Spain..."
1. While standing with all 6 bags in the middle of the airport, after finding them
sitting idly by the conveyor belt, not locked up or anything...
"Ok, we have here on the computer that there is still one bag confirmed in RDU, and
one bag is still missing..."
Thats all for now - we'll keep you updated! Thanks for everything!
Steve, Erica, Josh, and Bianca
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