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As your San Diego Gay Travel Examiner finds himself in the San Francisco Airport for a second day in a row, I thought it would be fun to share a glimpse of my daily schedule hopefully giving you an idea of what it means to be a travel writer. It isn't all free hotel rooms and swanky spa treatments.
A day in the life of a travel writer -
September 14th, 2009 -
10:00 AM
Having overslept my cell's ever handy alarm, I find I have only an hour to shower, dress and finish repacking my luggage before I have to leave Oakland heading back to the San Francisco Airport. All so I can check in and make my 2:44 PM flight back to San Diego.
12:00 PM
Driving into San Francisco with a friend, we debate if I have enough time to stop at the newly restored Ferry Building for a world-class organic burrito. Calling the Southwest Airline flight hotline to verify my flight is still on schedule, I encountered a new service offered by Southwest. Apparently due to high call volumes and lack of sales reps, Southwest now offers an automatic service that has you enter your cell and promises to call you within 2-3 minutes with an automated reply on your flights statue.
12:30 PM
Having waited more then 15 minutes for the automated reply and fastly approaching San Francisco, I decided to brave the 20-minute call time delay warning that the Southwest hotline kept repeating at me in a slightly eastern accent. I finally got a sales rep after listening for 15 minutes to their latest marketing promo, a barely understandable rap piece. I asked if my flight was on time, yes it was of course. I asked how much it would cost to take a later flight; she informed me of a marvelous policy Southwest offers.
*If you miss your flight, as long as your arrive and check in at the Airport within 2 hours of your flights departure Southwest with put you on the next available flight at no additional expense to you.
1:00 PM
As a rule checking in curbside is usually the fastest and most efficient method of checking in. You just have to remember the tip; I suggest a dollar per bag. The check-in clerk then informed me that my flight had been delays until 5:30 PM due to early morning fog. It appeared to be leaving from gate 25. After having a lovely 25 minutes to process this twist of fate as I moved through airport security I came to a phase of mild acceptance, which seems to be the norm for me now, I blame on the numerous airports I have to go through.
1:30 PM
As I struggled through airport security my cell went off, and later when I check the VM it turned out to be that handy dandy automatic flight statue updater finally getting back to me an hour and half later.
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