To be clear, there wasn't supposed to be a day two or a ridiculous layover; last night our trip took an unexpected turn from a 26 hour journey involving three flights to a 53 hour journey involving six flights and a surprise night in a hotel close to LAX.
This is definitely a pretty disheartening beginning to our move. We started out yesterday with crying parents and a HUGE hassle checking our bikes. After we finally got through okay, we were so excited.. We got a few celebratory beers and decided we would get lunch/dinner at our next connection - definitely a bad move in hindsight. We ended up going about 15 hours without food because of delayed flights and waiting in endless customer service lines to switch out our flights that were missed due to delays, then sprinting to barely catch our new connections. Because of the delay from Dallas to LAX, we missed the chance to board our Melbourne flight by about 15 minutes.
Check out the huge stack of tickets we have from all the changes:
That doesn't even include our new San Francisco > Sydney flight or the Sydney > Melbourne. We will probably avoid American Airlines in the future, to be honest. I have rarely used this airline without a long, unexpected delay. We spent a ton of time booking these flights and even paid extra to avoid excessive layovers for this very reason.
We are trying not to dwell on this longer than today, though. We have beautiful, sunny weather to look forward to pretty soon and it will be Saturday by the time we arrive. See you on the other side of the world!
-L
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