Last Fall, when Beebee told Pati she wanted to take him on an around the world trip, Pati wondered how he could make that happen. As luck would have it, Pati learned that the Carnival Discovery (sometimes referred to as the "lemon of the fleet") would sail from Florida to Italy in February for a major overhaul. Pati hates winter and hates flying so he booked a balcony suite. Because it is still cool in Italy in Febuary, the one way nature of the trip, and the lemon thing, the cruise didn't cost much more than flying and had better leg room during the trip. Pati was sold!
One thing Pati forgot when he reserved the cruise was that, technically speaking, traveling to Italy does not take one around the world. This was a puzzlement! By searching through the tubes on the internet, Pati found AirTreks - an around the world airline ticketing agency. After hours of planning, Patti found a route through Places Beebee would like. As an aside, every route Pati found required a stop in Kuala Lampor. Pati realized that Kuala Lampor must be like Atlanta when flying on Delta! This was one of many keen insights.
The internets told Pati that a trip from Italy that went the rest of the way around the world (including a stop in Kuala Lampor) would cost about $2200 per person and that Pati should contact their agent. Pati was most eager to do so! When he did, he was informed that the internets had lied! Instead of $2200, the agent said the trip would cost $3284 per person. To Pati, $2200 seemed like less money than $3284. Another puzzlement!
Pati realized that the internets had other tubes so he decided to see if another one could help him. He knew the Expedia tube had helped him in the past so he asked it how much the trip from Italy to around the would would cost and if he must stop in Kuala Lampor. To answer Pati's question, Expedia asked where he wanted to go. When he told Expedia "with Beebee" it told him that was not a valid airport code and he must think again. Pati thought and thought. As usual, little came of that so Pati went to the internet tube called TripAdvisor and was enlightened!
Other travelers had left messages in the TripAdvisor tube that helped Pati decide where they must go if he and Beebee were to go from Italy to around the world. He returned to the Expedia tube with his questions and received the following answers:
21 February - Egypt Air Flt 792 from Rome to Cairo
25 February - Egypt Air Flt MS361 from Cairo to Luxor
04 March - Egypt Air Flt MS352 from Luxor to Cairo
4 March - Etihad Flt 654/280 from Cairo to Kochi, India
18 March - Singapore Airlines Flt SQ5465/972 from Kochi to Bangkok, Thailand
22 March - Bangkok Airways Flt 905 from Bangkok to Siem Reap, Cambodia
26 March - Bangkok Airways Flt 924 from Siem Reap to Phuket, Thailand
2 April - Korean Air Flt 638/93 from Phuket to Around the World.
TripAdvisor gave Pati a very long answer but Pati was happy because it cost less than the short answer from AirTreks.
Pati is happy but has a few worries. First, he must distract Beebee on the trip from Cairo to Luxor to Cairo so she won't realize he is just lost and will not ask for directions. Second, he wonders if Etihad is a real airline or if the internets are playing a joke on him. Third, Pati has an insurace policy that pays an hourly rate for being hijacked in Cambodia. He is worried that he may not have the paperwork the hijackers need to fill out to document how many hours he and Beebee were hijacked. Finally, Pati misses Kuala Lampor and wonders where it is.
One thing Pati forgot when he reserved the cruise was that, technically speaking, traveling to Italy does not take one around the world. This was a puzzlement! By searching through the tubes on the internet, Pati found AirTreks - an around the world airline ticketing agency. After hours of planning, Patti found a route through Places Beebee would like. As an aside, every route Pati found required a stop in Kuala Lampor. Pati realized that Kuala Lampor must be like Atlanta when flying on Delta! This was one of many keen insights.
The internets told Pati that a trip from Italy that went the rest of the way around the world (including a stop in Kuala Lampor) would cost about $2200 per person and that Pati should contact their agent. Pati was most eager to do so! When he did, he was informed that the internets had lied! Instead of $2200, the agent said the trip would cost $3284 per person. To Pati, $2200 seemed like less money than $3284. Another puzzlement!
Pati realized that the internets had other tubes so he decided to see if another one could help him. He knew the Expedia tube had helped him in the past so he asked it how much the trip from Italy to around the would would cost and if he must stop in Kuala Lampor. To answer Pati's question, Expedia asked where he wanted to go. When he told Expedia "with Beebee" it told him that was not a valid airport code and he must think again. Pati thought and thought. As usual, little came of that so Pati went to the internet tube called TripAdvisor and was enlightened!
Other travelers had left messages in the TripAdvisor tube that helped Pati decide where they must go if he and Beebee were to go from Italy to around the world. He returned to the Expedia tube with his questions and received the following answers:
21 February - Egypt Air Flt 792 from Rome to Cairo
25 February - Egypt Air Flt MS361 from Cairo to Luxor
04 March - Egypt Air Flt MS352 from Luxor to Cairo
4 March - Etihad Flt 654/280 from Cairo to Kochi, India
18 March - Singapore Airlines Flt SQ5465/972 from Kochi to Bangkok, Thailand
22 March - Bangkok Airways Flt 905 from Bangkok to Siem Reap, Cambodia
26 March - Bangkok Airways Flt 924 from Siem Reap to Phuket, Thailand
2 April - Korean Air Flt 638/93 from Phuket to Around the World.
TripAdvisor gave Pati a very long answer but Pati was happy because it cost less than the short answer from AirTreks.
Pati is happy but has a few worries. First, he must distract Beebee on the trip from Cairo to Luxor to Cairo so she won't realize he is just lost and will not ask for directions. Second, he wonders if Etihad is a real airline or if the internets are playing a joke on him. Third, Pati has an insurace policy that pays an hourly rate for being hijacked in Cambodia. He is worried that he may not have the paperwork the hijackers need to fill out to document how many hours he and Beebee were hijacked. Finally, Pati misses Kuala Lampor and wonders where it is.
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