Jamie is currently en route to Delhi right now, via London (eat some salted cashews for all of us, J!) Unfortunately, thanks to a canceled United flight (with no notice), I’m still in rainy San Fran (BOO!).

When I arrived at the airport this morning they informed me that I couldn’t fly to Delhi via Beijing without a Chinese visa because my itinerary said I was staying in Beijing for over 24 hours. What?! A 28-hour layover? That was definitely NOT in my original plans. But apparently United/Air China canceled my original Beijing to Delhi flight and without telling me, booked me on a flight that left the following day (moral of the story: think twice before flying United).

Rather than camp out in the Beijing airport and risk deportation due to lack of a visa, I’m just flying to Beijing/Delhi tomorrow morning…certainly not my ideal situation. The good news is, while this sets me back a day, it doesn’t interrupt too much of our itinerary. As soon as I get to Delhi, we’ll hop a train to Jaipur to meet up with the Ruth clan.

Just hoping that Jamie can survive a day in Delhi left to his own devices We shall see…

2 Comments

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   Brutal! Hope things work out better today.

   I now have this great mental image of Jamie wandering around Delhi like Marcus in The Last Crusade…

   Comment by Mike Disharoon — December 25, 2008 @ 10:32 pm

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   Shows you that a lousy airline, like United Airlines, with poor customer care, like United Airlines, can foul up even the best laid plans. Looks like the adventure has already begun for Ramya and Jamie, better and best are yet to come.

   Comment by Usha Iyer — December 26, 2008 @ 7:09 pm

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