Monday, August 13, 2007

Travel Journal Part 1: Keep Your Nuts To Yourself

Amazingly, we made it into London yesterday having encountered no major snafus—an impressive thing given my usual luck as well as the massive computer failure at LAX leaving 17,000 international travelers stranded. (See photo below from Yahoo! News)

I made sure to pack enough snacks for the 10 hour flight: trail mix, pistachios (I’d just bought about a year’s supply of them from Costco so needed to start making some headway) and a pack of Filipino Cracker Nuts. My typical bad luck, having failed me at the airport, decided to kick in on the flight when the captain announced that a certain passenger had a severe nut allergy, so would everyone on board please refrain from opening any package of anything containing nuts or even traces of nuts.

Phooey. Perhaps I should have had the foresight to pack some crackers? Ah well…it was a minor bother, considering that I’m now happily typing this away at my swanky Soho hotel room, paid for by Dane’s company. The last thing I ought to do is complain about some verboten trail mix.

At the behest of others, I’ve brought my camera and plan on snapping away at random sights—but am sorry to say that I’ve forgotten my USB cord back home. So for the time being, here’s a shot from Carnaby Street I cheekily stole off of someone else’s Flickr page.


Dane will be working away at his London office for the greater part of the week while I occupy myself with aimlessly wandering around town. Sometimes, no plans are the best plans. (I made that up just now, so really don’t have a clue in hell how true it is!)

I’ll post photos when I return.

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