San Francisco - last day

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Sorry this is out of sequence, but I just wanted to complete things.

We spent our last day in San Francisco preparing to depart. We knew our luggage was over the limit so we put a parcel of books, other heavy and non-essetntials together and took it round to a nearby UPS shop. It weighed in at half a suitcase of stuff! (When we got to the airport we were still 4kgs over but nobody mentioned anything).

So after the fun of the UPS shop and packing, Nicky started another postcard writing marathon, Claire had a deep tissue massage, and had a walk and took some more photos. Nicky and I walked up to the squiggly bit of Lombard Street and had a bit of a wander, and then it was just a case of waiting for the shuttle bus to the airport. This arrived and took us through the rush hour traffic to the airport.

Now Nicky should be writing this bit so that she could milk it for it's worth, but she isn't, so I will just cover the salient points. Nicky and Claire were fine because they have NZ passports, but because I don't, and don't have a residency visa yet, and only had a one-way ticket, they were not going to let me on the flight because NZ immigration wouldn't let me into the country. So, the way round this was to buy another ticket to get me out of NZ so that I can prove that I am only visiting, until my residency goes through. Fortunately, this is a refundable ticket, but I might pop over to Australia any way just for fun.

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Martin said…
Did them not letting you on the flight liven things up a bit then? 'Cause obviously things have been a bit dull up until now :-)
September 18, 2007 at 10:41 AM
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