re: Do You Run to Make Traveling Connections?

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It depends. If I'm in a major hub with flights leaving to my destination every hour, then a solid power walk will do.

If the next plane/train/ferry is fricking tomorrow, you can bet your arse that I'm booking it

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As a follow up, my most recent instance of hauling arse:

End of a trip to Greece, plan is to fly out of Milos to Athens, stay the night in Athens, then fly out of Athens first fricking thing the next morning.

Then the flight out of Milos got cancelled due to high winds right as boarding was supposed to begin. Next flight was leaving the next morning... at the same time our flight was supposed to leave Athens. And to make things more fun, the little podunk airline flying out of Milos obviously wasn't the same as the major airline we used to fly in and out, so any rescheduling would have to be done on our effort and dime. Oh, and all of the ferries back to Athens that day were already booked up.

But, the airport employees told us that if you go directly to the dock and pay at the office, they will sometimes let you squeeze on even when the ferries are "full". But, if we went that route, the airport wasn't providing transportation beyond dropping us off at the harbor. Made the split second call to say frick it, take us to the harbor and we'll deal with it from there.

Ran from the car to the office, spit out what we needed and why, and we were told they would sell us a ticket for the last ferry out, but we would need to run, as it leaves in five minutes. Swiped the card, grabbed the tickets, and ran a solid quarter mile from the office to the dock to get on the ferry as they were getting ready to shut the doors.

Was something like a seven hour ferry ride, got into Athens at about 1am, slept for like two hours before having to get up and jump in a cab to ride out to the airport.

But we made that fricking flight