Many days have passed , since i wrote this but it is a start 4.30 am Frday , south of Baghdad lets go back .....
This entry will be written over the next few hours from the lounge in Frankfurt to Kuwait. Perhaps one of the truly bizarre things about traveling in this business is that you just accept it as travel. I honestly worry more about bus timetables down to the rail station when on holidays in Australia than I do about flying.
Somehow you always believe that it has been taken care of and somehow computer magic will ensure that all flows smoothly without a blemish. So imagine my surprise this morning arriving in Frankfurt to be told that yes I had a seat on the plane to Kuwait but I did not have a ticket and that if I wanted my seat it would cost $3500, the full cost of a return ticket Frankfurt – Kuwait.
I did not bother calling the travel agent who made the bookings back in the states as no one there makes much sense at two am on a Monday morning.
So as I sit and wait for “the Colonel” aka Ollie I think and reflect on how bizarre it is that we can simply say see you in the lounge on Monday and have no idea whatsoever as to the travel plans or flight details of the other members of the team. Keeping it simple like see you in the lounge sounds good just hope they turn up in the next hour before I figure out am I going to get on a plane to Kuwait if no one else from the team is on the plane . Then again all my gear is theoretically on the plane so at least I know I will be getting on the plane if for no other reason than … my gear is in the hold
Hang on … Hello Ollie are you there ?
12:07 pm
Ollie walks in the lounge , off to our ritual photo shop visit .
Rituals and routines are something that I do not like to break on every one of the trips I have done to Iraq with Ollie we have always gone down to the photo shop in the airport in Frankfurt. And we have comeback from every trip safe and sound . Some people have lucky rabbits foots , well Ollie and I go and look around the photo shop at Frankfurt airport. I used to have a lucky red war neck hankerchief but it faded to white and thus became not so lucky
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2 comments:
Never really panic ...do you Mr. James. I've never found anyone in New York that makes too much sense at 2 in the afternoon...much less 2 in the morning? Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now. Somehow you blogs are reassuring....you make sense out of a world that doesn't know what it is doing.
AZ
Wow - every time I read about how you pal around with Ollie North it throws me for a loop. Thatis Ollie North, right? The Ollie North?
Stay safe!
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