The stress of traveling

When you don’t travel a lot, you tend to forget that unpleasant things sometimes happen on the road.

This is exactly what we experienced when we flew from Salt Lake City to Paris and upon landing there, realized that our flight to Munich had been canceled with no apparent substitute solution.

When all was said and done, we were placed in a late evening flight that took us to our destination, some 9 hours later, at 11:30 pm. At that point, we still had to rent a car to drive to Salzburg, all the way in Austria and when we got there, it was raining hard, it was pitched dark and we could barely find our hotel and it was 2 am the following day.

All this to say that traveling implies uncertainty that always demand a requisite margin of safety if one is to avoid the stress of travel. Sounds complicated, but so true!