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Volume 9What’s the best travel experience you’ve had after making a wrong turn?
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Benjamin Arndt, no relation, asks, What’s the best travel experience you’ve had after making a wrong turn?
It wasn’t a literal wrong turn, more of a metaphorical one, but I had a flight scheduled from Samoa to Tonga. At the time, the countries were on opposite sides of the international date line.
The flight was a weekly Air New Zealand flight that started in LA and stopped in Samoa and Tonga on the way to Auckland. Because of the dateline and time zone difference, I accidentally read my ticket wrong and thought the landing time was the takeoff time.
When I arrived at the airport in Apia, I literally saw the plane taking off and realized what had happened.
I went back to the guesthouse I was staying at and had to try to get my ticket changed to the next flight in a week.I ended up spending the next week on the island of Savai’i, which I otherwise wouldn’t have visited. I had a great time, Air New Zealand was sympathetic and changed my ticket, and it was an experience I wouldn’t have otherwise had if I had made the flight.
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