Unexpected gifts
Nov. 16th, 2001 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaI got home last night to a message on the answering machine. Northwest Airlines wanted to let us know that our flight out of Memphis was overbooked, and they were offering us one free round-trip ticket each to anywhere in the continental U.S., if we were willing to change our plans.
Apparently they weren't getting many takers, because by the time I called, they'd upped the offer to free round-trip tickets to anywhere in the continental U.S., Alaska, or the Caribbean. Especially if we could fly back into DCA (Washington National) instead of Dulles. Given that we'd be taking the subway to the airport in any case, that made absolutely no difference to us, so...
For the cost of (a) shortening our trip to Memphis by eight hours, and (b) a somewhat longer trip (through Detroit rather than a direct flight), Misha and I now have the distinct pleasure of studying Northwest route maps and planning a suddenly-affordable winter vacation.
Jamaica. Antigua. Puerto Rico. Cozumel. Palm trees and beaches and electric-blue water and rum drinks and warm, warm sunshine. Oh, that's going to be good.
Apparently they weren't getting many takers, because by the time I called, they'd upped the offer to free round-trip tickets to anywhere in the continental U.S., Alaska, or the Caribbean. Especially if we could fly back into DCA (Washington National) instead of Dulles. Given that we'd be taking the subway to the airport in any case, that made absolutely no difference to us, so...
For the cost of (a) shortening our trip to Memphis by eight hours, and (b) a somewhat longer trip (through Detroit rather than a direct flight), Misha and I now have the distinct pleasure of studying Northwest route maps and planning a suddenly-affordable winter vacation.
Jamaica. Antigua. Puerto Rico. Cozumel. Palm trees and beaches and electric-blue water and rum drinks and warm, warm sunshine. Oh, that's going to be good.
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Date: 2001-11-16 09:18 am (UTC)I went to Puerto Rico as part of a school choir trip my senior year in high school - and had a surprisingly nice time. We did a bit of hiking in a rainforest (which my lungs rather disliked, but which involved some spectacular scenery. I'm not sure I'd do it again, though. Rain forest humidity made me really unhappy.) The beaches are lovely (even in mid-march).
I also discovered that I quite like coconut as long as no one's done anything to it. (At least at the beach we were at, you could buy whole coconuts for a reasonable sum, the person who ran the stand would hack the top off and hand you a straw. You'd wander off, drink the coconut milk, and then wander back again eventually, and the stand owner would hack it into smaller pieces so you could easily get at the meat.
There's also a very nice historical fort (complete with ghost story) in San Juan which I found very intriguing.
There were areas of the city we were warned not to wander around in at night by ourselves, but in general, I felt quite safe and comfy there as a tourist.
I'm being pedantic...
Date: 2001-11-16 12:54 pm (UTC)--Trinker
(thinking that the hacking service sounds really nice, though.)
(thinking as well that she's done her lifetime quota of being in tropical "paradise", and would rather go to a museum or a ski slope.)
Re: I'm being pedantic...
Date: 2001-11-16 01:45 pm (UTC)I thought you liked me.
Re: I'm being pedantic...
Date: 2001-11-16 07:45 pm (UTC)(There are no mosquitos on the ski slope.)
--Trinker, unreasonable.