This week marked the second week in a row of traveling for work where they weren't just day trips but multiple destinations back to back. You can tell I've been traveling a bit more than usual when:
1. I run into a coworker in one of those snaking lines to get through security. We traded notes on recent projects we've both been traveling for when we'd pass each other. A fun way to make it through security.
2. I forget to write down my destination address but find when I get in the taxi at the airport I spit it out without thinking - apparently I have it memorized.
3. I realize I should get a taxi to Reagan Airport when an alert pops up on my email while I'm on a conference call saying I'm departing in an hour and a half. Time to hussle!
4. I go to check-in at the airport by swiping the credit card at one of the self check-in kiosks and I'm stumped when it asks me to put in the first three letters of my destination city. Got it on the second try and apparently I'm heading to Newark (Philli was my first guess).
5. I don't politely wait at the end of a ridiculously long and poorly managed security line at Terminal B (mental note - don't fly out of this terminal, stick with JetBlue). It's shear chaos since the number of people goes half way down the terminal way beyond the ribbons that keep people in queue. Half the people are keeping the four lines and the other half of the people just ignore the lines and butt in at the official entry of the lines. I realize the line I'm in isn't moving partly because of everyone cutting so pop over and cut in the next line which was brilliant - it was the only line that moved. It allowed me time to pop into the bathroom which I was dying to do since I was on the conference call back at the office.
6. I have no idea where I'm going when I land but the great thing is I have all this technology that allows me to get away with preparing properly. Or so I think!
7. And I pack 10 minutes before I head out the door this morning. Threw a bunch of stuff into my weekend bag and cross the fingers I didn't forget anything.
2 comments:
Haha, I can totally relate with the taxi thing! I spend so much time trying to remember what the destination was, and then I panic when I can’t remember, only to know it by heart once I get in the taxi! It’s little comfort at the airport of a different country though. That’s why I’ve taken to carrying a little notebook in my bag with the complete names and addresses of all my commuting destinations, so that when I hire a taxi at the airport (or anywhere else), I know exactly where to send the driver.
“6. I have no idea where I'm going when I land but the great thing is I have all this technology that allows me to get away with preparing properly.” That could be one of the basic things you should have when travelling these days. Technology has been a big help in terms of business and personal use. Also, its capacity to access information anywhere in the world, from anywhere in the world, could help someone wherever they may be. ;)
Trudi Thorburn
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