Layover in Manila
The Gods of Air Travel are fickle and cruel - don't mess with them!
Hello from Manila!
You thought I’d be writing to you from Bali, and frankly, so did I. But the Gods of Air Travel had other ideas. Let me explain.
The original plan was to fly from Los Angeles to Manila, change planes, then head for Bali. Our layover in Manila was supposed to last about an hour. Like I said, that was the plan. But to paraphrase an old Yiddish proverb: Man plans, and the Gods of Air Travel laugh their asses off while you stew in layover hell.
When we checked in at LAX, the gate agent told us our flight to Manila would be delayed by three hours. That didn’t sound too bad, but then the gate agent explained that we’d have to wait approximately twenty hours in Manila for the next flight to Bali. In other words, instead of arriving in Bali on November 3, we’d get there at the same time on November 4.
Christina took the bad news in stride. She used the delay to book us a hotel in Manila.
“Sleeping in a real bed and showering beats wandering the a…
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