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My two-week sojourn to Germany ended today, and by golly it could have been a perfect landing for this weary traveler.<\/p>\n

Except for one little thing … well, two actually.<\/p>\n

My luggage didn’t show up!<\/p>\n

Over many years traveling, some of it internationally, I have had extraordinary good luck when it involves luggage. I guess today my luck ran out.<\/p>\n

I checked into the Nuremberg, Germany airport this morning two hours ahead of my flight to Paris. A two-hour layover there preceded my boarding a plane bound for Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.<\/p>\n

Two hours is plenty of time for the luggage to be transferred, right? I sat on the packed Boeing 787 for 10 hours. I got off the plane and went first to customs and then to baggage claim, where I waited and waited some more.<\/p>\n

Two pieces of checked luggage didn’t make it.<\/p>\n

The kid at the customer service counter looked at my claim tickets and said the bags were “still in Paris. I guess they must have had a weight issue for the plane.”<\/p>\n

The luggage will get here in a day or two. Hey, no sweat. I have plenty of clothes hanging in my closet.<\/p>\n

You know what? None of this hassle today is going to take a single, solitary thing away from the marvelous time I had with dear friends.<\/p>\n

However, first things first. I need to take a nap.<\/p>\n\n

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My two-week sojourn to Germany ended today, and by golly it could have been a perfect landing for this weary traveler. Except for one little thing … well, two actually. My luggage didn’t show up! Over many years traveling, some of it internationally, I have had extraordinary good luck when it involves luggage. I guess … Continue reading Almost a perfect ending<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[6563,3492],"class_list":["post-57010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-local-news","tag-dfw-airport","tag-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57011,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57010\/revisions\/57011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}