Month: March 2012

Air New Zealand Debacle

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So, today we had the bright idea to try to change our seats on our Air New Zealand flight out of San Francisco to Auckland. For some reason, they had Shru and I in separate rows and we had a 7 hour layover to kill at the airport. Why not see if they had two seats together? So we journeyed over to our connection gate but of course there was no one there since the flight didn’t board for over 5 hrs, so we asked someone working at another counter where else we could find Air New Zealand personnel. They said our best bet was to just go back out of the gates to the departure counters and talk directly with the booking agents. We paused for a second, thinking how is it possible that there isn’t someone on this side that can look into this change for us, but we said ‘what the hell, we have so much time and the security lines aren’t even that long. Out we go! 15 minutes later we …

Jersey Trampin

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So, at the start of our little world adventure, we decided that if there is an option to get from point A to point B for ‘almost’  free then we’ll take it. Unfortunately for us we took on this mission outside a long term storage facility in nowhere South Jersey to park our car for the next 4 months. We decided to take the NJ Transit train back to Hoboken from the storage facility. The pudgy guy with likeable face behind the counter pointed down the road and said, “Just walk up the road a little ways and hang a right by the movie theater, and the train station should be on your right..probably like a 20 minutes walk” An hour later after crossing 3 major highways, and passing four taco bells we began to question the dudes estimation skills. My guess is that there is not a lot of walking done in these parts of Jersey. Hell there is not even a good pedestrian walk way on the road and after 15 mins we …