It was a beautiful sunny drive most of the way yesterday. It turned cloudy as we came back up the mountain, but there’s a good chance today will be sunny again.
The only glitch was Kaitlin and Torben checked their bags — containing their warm jackets and boots — and the bags never arrived at baggage claim. Andy easily lent them jackets, and presumably their bags will get here before they leave for home.
They weren’t the only ones with missing luggage, and the lady dealing with the line was sympathetic. She said their bags were on the way to Denver and should be in Albuquerque shortly before 5 pm. She took the name of their motel here in town and said the airline would bring them up. In the meantime, did they want to be sent periodic texts of the bags’ progress. That sounded good, so yes.
This is the message Kaitlin received shortly after she signed up at 12:36 pm:
She was looking forward to the next text, when the bags had presumably made it to New Mexico and might be on their way here. But it was not to be. At precisely 6:36 pm she received this message:
So much for that idea! Hopefully the bags arrived either last night or this morning, but we’re not holding our breaths. We’ll have a good time anyway, and as usual, I will keep you posted.
December 28, 2014
I hope that they eventually get the bags! I lost one in Chales DeGaulle airport some years ago and after much toing and froing got money as compensation but no sign of the bag!
Apparently the bags are at their motel now. We’ll check when we go down to the store in a few minutes.
One airline lost my bags for three days once, but they were eventually found. It is a nuisance.
We’ve had bags not at baggage claim but can’t remember where or when. I DO remember this: In Ireland they didn’t like the white power I had in a small, plastic bag. “It’s vitamin C. Taste it.” –“I’M not going to taste it!” They took it to a lab. I was held up so long I wasn’t able to claim the tax refund on the Irish sweaters I’d bought.
Our luggage wasn’t at claim in Sweden because our plane was delayed & we were put on another plane. Once at Albuquerque (a flight home).
I’ve had missing bags in Albuquerque, and they just delivered them when they finally arrived. The missing bags on my trip to Scotland was messier. The plane I was supposed to be on was to land at Gatwick in London, but the baggage cart bumped into the plane in Albuquerque so I had to take another flight, one landing at Heathrow. Needless to say, the bags didn’t make it. I was going to spend a long weekend with Kaitlin in St. Andrew, Scotland while on my way to a business trip in Germany. The bags finally caught up with me in Edinburgh after I left St. Andrews. It was a minor nuisance, but actually kind of fun.
Once on a Delta flight we had to run for a plane and thought the suitcases wouldn’t make it. They did, but they were so badly beat up we had to toss one of them. It had survived our trip around the world, but couldn’t make it from Salt Lake City to Albuquerque. The airlines don’t promise suitcases won’t be damaged.
oh for pete’s sake.
she said with a forced frozen smile on her face.
after all she IS commenting on the famous and dear CHEERFUL monk’s blog. 🙂
😀
When something like this happens my favorite joke is to say, “It makes you realize what the pioneers went through, doesn’t it?”
I hope that the bags are truly there now! What a pain…
They were at the motel when we went over to check before dinner. Yay!
I seem to recall there is a place in USA where they “sell” lost bag/objects…
My worse case (& we did get a refund) was a loom that had to be split up for shipping – one half arrived, the other never surfaced…loom was no use without the other part and as it was secondhand there was no replacement to be had! That was long time ago when I sold things on -line and they went all over the world…from NZ.
That’s too bad since it was irreplaceable!