First Travel Outside Home Country

Just reached Baton Rouge - LA (USA) about 1-2 hours back (3rd August 9:00 PM CST / 4th August 7:30 AM IST). Got fresh and had rice and dal (Heaven)...Thanks to Anusha (Indian doing her MS in LSU)....

I had a terrible yet an experience of a kind in my journey from Bangalore (India) to Baton Rouge.

My actual itenary was :

Bangalore (Kingfisher) - Mumbai (Delta) - Amsterdam (Delta) - Atlanta (Delta) - Baton Rouge (Delta).

But due to some delay in the Kingfisher airline they changed my flight to mumbai to JetAirways.

This flight landed 30 mins after my flight to Amsterdam took off :-(. I really must thank the coach drive who took us from Domestic Airport to the Internation Airport, the local admin guy at the International Airport who helped me go to the Delta Airline Office...if not for them I would have been back home....seriously....

Once I reached th delta office I saw another gal (done with her MS and goin back for a job ) in a similar situation..I may sound mean...but it was reallly a booster for me ;-)...

The delta airline authroities were very very kind and helped me get into Luftansa (Mumbai to Frankfurt). I was so exhausted, sweaty and hungry and was welcomed with some snacks and juice...a guy next to me in the aeroplane (Indian) helped me with my monstorous cabin baggage and lap top bag :-)...I had a small nap and was served with a good break fast as well :-)....Asian Veggie....Couldnt have asked for more!!!!!

Landed in Frankfurt after 9 hours of travle, and had to rush to catch my next plane there to Atlanta (Delta)....was just in time at the terminal...had a small immigiration act and finally boarded the plane on time......

Frankfurt to Atlanta was a bad experience :

1. It was so damn cold

2. They had no veg food...had to survive only on salads (tastes really bad if you eat more than one serving)

3. There were a couple sitting next to me...and i leave the rest to your imagination...

4. The movie options were reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaly sad

Anyways, landed in Atlanta after 10 hrs and had a quick & easy immigiration....my next flight was 4 hrs later...so went to the terminal...called up home and started reading a book..soon the flight got delayed by 2 hrs amd since I was starving took a very wise and challenging decision to have a veg burger at Burger King. I dont remember much of my journey from Atlanta to Baton Rouge as I had dozzed off. Landed in Baton Rouge, had all my baggages :-) :-) :-)....Some indians from LSU came and picked me up and after about 15 mins drive arrived at Anusha's apt...rest is as per line 1 of this blog :-)