My dismal trip back

I just got back all beaten up from Puerto Rico. After eating Mofongos (mashed plantain fattening piece of junk) and the likes for 2 weeks I was looking forward to visiting my Brazilian friend, Joule in SF. I havent seen that dude since college but my plans got squashed..just like that mofo mofongo. I drove an hour to Mayaguez airport or aeropuerto to take the twin propeller plane to San-Juan for connection till the storms ruined my plan. I waited in the airport for an hour or so before deciding to rent a car to drive for 3 hours or so in torrential downpour to San Juan. I missed the connecting flights and was left with two pathetic options.

1. Stay a night at the ritz in San Juan and fly out the next morning reaching Cali at 2 pm
2. Take the last flight (8pm) out of San Juan to NY (JFK), spend a night there and take a morning flight to LAX reaching there at 10am

I chose the latter.

The 767 to nyc got delayed too. I ended up relaxing at the admiral's club lounge, bought some fridge magnets for mom, bought Don-C Rums (2 bottle actually, one for my friend, Wallstein. I need to be nice to him, he might get me a ticket to world cup matches in Germany as he has all the german connections), chilled at the bar drinking Tanqueray on the rocks with Pellegrinos . FINALLY, I boarded the plane 1/2 past 9 and reached NYC past midnight. I was SO GLAD that I got first class but got a bloody headache from sitting with some woman who had a reeking scent on her. I was too tired to read or do any work. I ended up doing fuck-all playing poker on my black berry throughout the trip; not bad, at one time I was $70,000 in the green. Maybe one day I might hone my skills enough to make a trip to vegas.

Since all the hotels in the NYC regions were taken up by UN delegates, I ended up in a comfort inn in Queens!! NYC was nostalgic, I got reminded of my trip to NYC with bubutummy in summer of 2003 and so I gave her a call and we chatted a while about our adventure together. I got to sleep at 1:20am and got up at 5:00am to catch the 6-hour flight to LAX.

The wonderful omlette and chocolate chip cookies was the highlight of my flight. I managed to get business class sheer luck, so no complains. I spent most of the trip in a state of concussion from sheer fatigue.

I got Jim pick me up in his limosine though I am not a big fan of lincolns. For 150 quints, you get a black car service, better than taking a united express shuttle plane . An hour later, I was in office and that was the end of an ordeal...

My expenses came up to $3500 for two weeks...as I inch towards getting enough points on my amex card to get that bose noise cancelling phones. I need that thing before I lose my hearing in total from all these trips. As it is I am partially deaf from my macho days of not wearing ear-plugs during my military / artillery days.

I am back so I can fly out again on Monday to Puerto Rico again!!!! DAMMit. My dismal life is representated by my 1/4 million miles just on American airlines.