A wasteful detour

Trip Start Mar 06, 2008
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Trip End Mar 17, 2008


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Where I stayed
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
(Fort Lauderdale hotels)

Flag of United States  , Florida,
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

godot finally arrived and delivered us to ft. lauderdale, where our connecting flight was to pick us up five or so hours later.  we decided it would be fun to stop by the ft. lauderdale beach, and so we left the airport in pursuit of some sort of public transportation.  after walking in circles for 30 minutes or so, we hopped on a local transit bus, from which we connected to a bus whose final destination was the galeria mall at the beach.  the entire trip to the galeria took over an hour, so when we arrived the sun was quickly setting.  we entered the galeria, headed straight for the food court, plowed down some chicken and sushi, and began our return trip to the airport knowing full-well that we'd wasted our day in ft. lauderdale.  this time, we grabbed a cab.

on the way to the airport, we stopped by a verizon wireless store and purchased a global sim card for my blackberry.  it was a long and expensive process, but we ended up leaving fort lauderdale with the global travel pack completely installed.  only later did we realize that nicaragua is not a verizon-sponsored global location -- so not only did my internet not work in nicaragua, but neither did my telephony.

the fact that the plane was again delayed wasn't accompanied with much surprise (from either azim and me or from any of the other patient flyers).  the delay actually provided us with time to use the airport's free wireless internet to make skype calls to nicaraguan hostels and cheap hotels so we could find a place to stay for the night.  after over an hour (no joke) of calling random places we found online, we received the number of hotel pachelly from a friendly hostel manager in the outskirts of managua.  well, at least when we'd arrive in managua we would have a place to stay.
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