A couple of travel-related points of interest from my trip to Arizona last week.
First—renting a car these days
is quite the economic shocker. My Kia Soul (in the “economy” category) cost
$266.93 for three days. Plus a “deposit” at pick-up of $466. (I just checked;
it has, in fact, been refunded.)
But what was also a slice was
sliding into a car that’s at least 20 years newer than the one I drive on the
regular. I consider my trip a triumph in that I figured out how to use cruise
control. And that on the one night I had to drive, I got the lights working,
and they weren’t high-beams. (My car’s lights stay on whenever the engine’s
running. It’s Swedish.)
But the other moments of
excitement came at DFW Airport, when American Airlines changed the departure
gate for my flight from C4 to A39, which is in a different county, without
updating the boarding pass on my mobile phone. Thank God I checked the
departure board, and then asked the ladies at Amex’s Centurion Lounge front
desk to double check. One of them gave me instructions (take the Skylink) and
made sure I got on the first elevator leaving the lounge.
Because the flight was already
boarding.
Well, I had to haul ass, but I
made it to the plane. Not the only one to have been flummoxed by the gate change-boarding
pass issue.
It’s always a good end to a
trip when you catch your flight home.
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