Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Tomorrow, I will be returning to Minneapolis from Amsterdam. Right now I'm in Veenendaal, which is usually about an hour's drive from the Amsterdam Airport Schipol. But we have been warned to expect up to a three hour journey by car tomorrow.

For the buses and trains won't be running on time tomorrow in The Netherlands. In fact, they won't be running at all. To protest what they perceive to be unfair budget cuts by the government, the public transit workers are conducting a 24 hour transit strike on Thursday. Nice timing.

Let's see. Three hours in a car. Two hours at the airport. Eight hours on a plane. Yeah, tomorrow's gonna just be a regular barrel of laughs ain't it?

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