It’s now been two full days without my luggage.
On my flight from Nice to Paris, Air France failed to load my bag, so I wasn't able to collect it upon arriving in Paris.
I am feeling mentally drained from having to deal with it. There is a courier service that is supposed to deliver the bag to my Airbnb, but I have no way to contact them. Since I have no idea when the bag will arrive, I'm stuck waiting at my Airbnb, hoping it will show up soon. The customer support team at Air France has been incredibly unhelpful; at one point, they couldn’t even check my file because their system was down.
Over the past 48 hours, I have been hopeful, excited, disappointed, frustrated, angry, and finally, sad as I await the arrival of my luggage. In the meantime, I have been using this Anthony Bourdain quote to keep me sane:
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”
In my case, I can only hope that the “something good” I leave behind isn’t my luggage.
But the sentiment still resonates. Despite my frustration, I am learning to roll with the punches, and as Bourdain advised, let the journey change me.
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It’s now been two full days without my luggage.
On my flight from Nice to Paris, Air France failed to load my bag, so I wasn't able to collect it upon arriving in Paris.
I am feeling mentally drained from having to deal with it. There is a courier service that is supposed to deliver the bag to my Airbnb, but I have no way to contact them. Since I have no idea when the bag will arrive, I'm stuck waiting at my Airbnb, hoping it will show up soon. The customer support team at Air France has been incredibly unhelpful; at one point, they couldn’t even check my file because their system was down.
Over the past 48 hours, I have been hopeful, excited, disappointed, frustrated, angry, and finally, sad as I await the arrival of my luggage. In the meantime, I have been using this Anthony Bourdain quote to keep me sane:
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”
In my case, I can only hope that the “something good” I leave behind isn’t my luggage.
But the sentiment still resonates. Despite my frustration, I am learning to roll with the punches, and as Bourdain advised, let the journey change me.
