Technology- Blogs and Travel
Over the next couple of days I’m going to post several entries with old dates on them. I’ve been traveling in
Spain for the last week and a half and am catching up on my travel reports. I’ve actually had pretty good
Internet access during the trip, but felt uncomfortable about posting on the
public internet that I was away while I’m actually out of the house. It would be
really cool if there were some good solutions for this kind of situation that
would let me share this stuff more effectively with my friends and family but
not the whole world, but so far this doesn’t appear to exist. In any case, if you see new posts appearing from
10 days ago, its not a bug.
Today (the 5th) we left for Spain. We booked some business class tickets for
Kat and me using my airline miles but unfortunately getting to the south of
Spain ended up involving three flights with connections in Chicago and Madrid.
They changed our flights just a couple of weeks ago and we wound up with greater
than 4 hour layovers in both Chicago and Madrid. After the miserable experience
in Dallas I don’t mind a decent layover but 4 hours is a lot and expanded the
overall trip to 24 hours of travel. Flying business class was a big bonus for
the layovers since we got to stay in the special lounges. The other effect of
the reschedule was that they said they couldn’t book us seats ahead of time. We
brought Stacy to help with Fen and Olivia (two 7-8 year olds) but the bookings
were different so when we checked in they couldn’t get Stacy seats with the
kids.
Luckily we managed to negotiate seats together on each step but I noticed
that the Spanish airports aren’t set up at all to make seat changes at the gate.
The folks at the gate don’t have a way to do anything other than take the
tickets and put people on the airplane.
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