Again I was able to stretch my legs and have supper. By now jet lag, something I never experienced before started to affect me. My flight to Juneau has arrived and I leave Anchorage. Finally I landed at Juneau and went to the baggage claim conveyer. What do you mean I have no baggage? I go to the lost and found person and report my missing luggage. This is about 5:00 P.M. Pacific Time. Actually it is 9:00 PM EST. I' been up and traveling 15 hours and my baggage is in NaNa land.
The lost and found man told me to go to my hotel and he would call me when he found my luggage. I go to the desk where I rented a car and spoke with a nice lady who says my car is the parking lot. I had a little car trouble and was corrected.
I drove to my hotel, check in and go to my assigned room. It is not what I ordered or paid for. Back to the front desk and get resettled. By now I starting to think that "Murphy's Law" would affect this once in a lifetime trip.
I decide I need to settle down and get some sleep. At 8:00 PM PST the phone rings and wakes me from my sleep. It is the lost and found man at the airport, saying he located my luggage. He said it would be on the next flight into Juneau and would deliver it to my hotel room. I thanked him and went back to sleep. Midnight and the phone ringing startles me awake and it is a person delivering my luggage to my room.
Forgetting that I am up north in Alaska and the birds start to sing at sun up. Oh, by the way, sun up is at 2:30 AM. The seagulls were squawking, the ravens cawing, the robins and other song birds singing and the eagle were screaming as the flew to their hunting grounds. I'm up again. Fortunately my hotel room had a coffee maker and some reading material.
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