FIPO!
Oh, yes, we are totally there dude. Here’s Pim and Paul writing to you from an assorted amount of countries in the European Union (well ..) Pim is currently in Austria, booking flights with his girlfriend and daughter (and oh boy, is this going well, read on below for more details), and Paul is hanging out in the Netherlands, to see if he can match up flights to be in the same place at the same time.
We are Pim van Pelt and Paul de Weerd, and we have traveled east (from NL to PL), south (from NL to IT), north (from NL to SE) but not yet west (because, well, west means driving into the northern sea and this is not very exciting).
So we have decided to drive West-with-a-capital-W, and take a road trip from New York to Los Angeles. Yes, we are exicited about this, and are already taking bets on when and where we will be arrested for the first time.
Pim has tried to book a flight on AA.com, because he’s going to be in the SF Bay Area for work related reasons. Pim will be there for ~2 weeks, and then take a 3 week road trip. Because he cannot do without his girlfriend and daughter (awww, I swear: I will use her to get chickie-attention as much as I can :), we’ll travel as a family to the US together. Of course, because we now have a terribly complicated itinerary, we’ll have to “be creative with AA.com”. Here goes:
- One flight 4/10 ZRH-JFK-SFO, then 4/24 SFO-JFK-ZRH for Alexis and Marina
- One flight 4/10 ZRH-JFK-SFO, then 5/15 SFO-JFK-ZRH for Pim
- One flight 4/24 SFO-JFK (overlapping with Marina/Alexis’ home flight)
- One flight 4/24 AMS-JFK (for Paul, landing around the same time Pim lands w/ Alexis/Marina)
OK, so while this was a bitch to get done, and it took Pim a few (5+ phone calls to the friendly people at AA.com who botched the reserveration), we are now all golden and set to be a go for this trip.
Next up: rent a car, and dodge the insane one-way fee (people ask $1000 for a delivery in another state, and those people should be shot)