NEW YORK AGAIN OR 'ARE THOSE FUCKING HALLOWEEN PRANKS OR SOMETHING?'

Back in New York for one day to properly say goodbye to Lotte and pick up my laptop from repair. The Apple store is now officially my most often visited place in NYC and I may or may not have spent 100€ talking to an Apple computer on the phone while trying to reschedule appointments. Oh well, so that's that.

While waiting for my laptop, I tried to check in online for my flight to Buenos Aires but somehow the flight number kept showing up as invalid. At the same time my laptop was handed to me with a note that basically everything was exchanged, including the hard drive which means I have lost everything which was on the laptop before. Ironically enough, 3 weeks ago I just transferred all my data on this new laptop I bought for traveling so I almost fainted when I heard the news.

I have not yet recovered from all that, the next punch in my face was right there: My flight to Buenos Aires was moved from JFK to LaGuardia and it was at 10AM instead of 5PM without me knowing it because the travel agency failed to notify me. It must be a Halloween prank, right? I spent another fortune talking to the travel agency in Germany and went to JFK without any success because no one could help me. I cried in public a few times that day.

"That's it, I'm so going back to Germany, fuck traveling and fuck all this." I have had enough. If there is a higher force out there that is trying to tell me something or trying to punish me for every single bad thing I have done: congrats, you have been very thorough with your work!

Fortunately, I am not superstitious and I do realize that on my journey, there are more wonderful but most probably also more sad moments to come which may make me want to go home; and I know I always have the option to do that. But this was not one of those moments. And I know I would be very happy once I arrive in Buenos Aires. So no, I am not going home yet.

I decided to have another flight to Buenos Aires booked for the next day, which means I'm staying another night in NYC. Lotte was with me all day and I felt bad she had to see me that miserable but at the same time, I was so thankful I did not have to go through this alone and she felt my pains but she also knew all along this was not the time for me to give up.

31.10. - 01.11.