Going Home

Sadly, every trip must eventually come to an end. Truth be told, many people are glad to be heading home after two months (or more) on the go, sleeping in a different bed every few days. Returning home should be a piece of cake for the now-experienced traveler, so only a few words of advice are necessary:

- If you are flying home, and stopping on the way, be careful. If you miss one leg of a flight, all other legs are canceled. For example, let’s say you are scheduled to fly home from Munich to London to Sydney, with a scheduled stop of one week in London. You are having such a good time in Munich that you no-show for your flight to London, and stay in Munich for six extra days, and take a train to London. Well, your ticket from London to Sydney was canceled when the plane took off from Munich without you. Believe it or not, it is virtually impossible to cancel one segment of a two-part flight even if you call ahead. Hard to believe, but true. If your homeward ticket says that you catch a plane in Munich, and go through London and back on to home, even if the whole trip is on the same airline, you MUST catch that plane in Munich. Yes, I know this is stupid - believe me, I know. I once burned through six phone cards in Paris, trying to get a flight segment canceled so I didn’t have to backtrack all the way to Denmark.