Left my Visa in Miami

Almost has the same ring to it as "I left my heart in San Francisco", I wish it had been that instead though. It wasn't until I was in Palm Springs the next day trying to pay for dinner that I realized the well used slot in my wallet was empty. I figure I must have paid for dinner the previous night, signed my receipt, but then neglected to remove my credit card from the little book the bill came in.

I promptly called Visa and declared the card lost, and started the process of getting a new card sent out to me. I started the process on Friday night, so the new card would have been batched out on Monday, but that was a holiday, so then sent out on Tuesday on a Purolator 1-2 day express package, but I have yet to receive it (now being the 2 day mark). I hope it comes tomorrow, it is my last day off and also I need to make an online purchase that has a sale which ends tomorrow.

My remaining days on call stayed pretty close to what I thought they would be. The only change was that instead of going to Tampa, we went to Miami instead. We left, snow and slush in Toronto and landed in a beautiful 24 degree clear night in Miami. We were only there for the night (just enough time for me to leave my Visa in the hotel bar), and then off to Kentucky for a pickup to take some horse buying folks to Palm Springs. After a night in Palm Springs, I hopped on Westjet to head back to Calgary direct on Saturday. Which was far nicer than the fate of the pilot who was sent down to replace me. All the direct flights were booked solid so he had to connect, TWICE, by going from Calgary to Edmonton to Los Angeles and then finally to Palm Springs. It took him 12 solid hours when it took me only just shy of 3 hrs on Westjet.

So now on a pretty relaxing 5 days off, which were definitely needed after a full 10 days on the road!

Oh, on a side note, my folks just called me and said I was summoned for jury duty in BC. I guess they're using some out of date voters registry or something, because I have been in Calgary for over 3 years now. Needless to say, I wont be serving on a BC jury any time soon!

Working a full 10 of 10 days

Yup, as predicted it's been a busy set of "available" days. Not a lot of flying, actually, barely any, just mostly sitting around in hotels.

My trip has differed slightly from what I predicted in my last post, which of course is no surprise with my occupation. I'm currently in Toronto and have been since Sunday. I did spend Thursday to Sunday in Penticton just hanging out, then flew out to Toronto later Sunday afternoon. I was only in Calgary for a couple of hours but was surprised to see our hangar was full of Bentleys. It turns out we did a joint program where we had a bunch of showroom Bentleys being shown off in our hangar, along with one of our newest jets (the jet I was to take to Toronto later that day). A pretty smart idea getting some Bentley people out to see a different way of travelling around. Because if you can afford a $250,000 automobile, there is a chance you could afford a share in a private jet. And vice versa, our clients who were flying around that day came in to check out the fancy cars inside, because I'm sure if they can afford to fly on our jets, they can certainly afford any of the Bentleys that were on display. Some of our pilots even got to take them out for test drives too, I unfortunately had a flight to Toronto, so was unable to partake.

So I've been in Toronto now since Sunday just hanging out. Tomorrow (Thursday) we are showing off the plane to a potential client at the Pearson Airport here. We might go up for a quick flight, but weather is supposed to be real crappy and so I'm not sure they're going to want to go up only to get bounced around and not be able to see anything outside anyways. We'll find out tomorrow I guess. After all of that is done I'll be heading down to Tampa FL for a night, then Friday it's off to Lexington KY and then Palm Springs CA. Saturday is day 10/10, and I foresee a Westjet flight home to Calgary that day in time to begin my days off on Sunday. I'm sure glad I packed a full suitcase for this stint. I haven't been in Calgary in quite some time, based on some busy flying last rotation and then spending my days off in Vancouver. It will be nice to get settled back into Calgary for a change!