{"id":43971,"date":"2013-06-03T21:57:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T21:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=43971"},"modified":"2013-06-03T21:57:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T21:57:20","slug":"the-missing-laptop-travel-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/the-missing-laptop-travel-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"The Missing Laptop Travel Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/br>By Bill Pytlovany<\/p>\n<h3>The Missing Laptop Travel Nightmare<\/h3>\n<p>Instead of a Memorial Day picnic, you have to fly Minnesota. Once you arrive late in the evening you still have to drive six hours and be ready for training the following day.  You reach into your bag and find a Microsoft Surface RT that apparently belongs to someone you\u2019ve never met or heard of.  What would you do?<\/p>\n<p>Now imagine you traveled halfway across the country, taking two separate crowded economy flights. When you arrive it first appears that your airline has lost your bag but you eventually find it. It\u2019s a good thing because Delta Airlines surprised me with a $25 charge to check one bag. You locate the taxi stand and ride into the city dragging both your bag and carry-on bag into a noisy downtown hotel. When they can\u2019t find your reservation you discover Hilton has two hotels on the same street in Minneapolis.  So at 10 PM you\u2019re in a strange downtown dragging your bags four blocks to the hotel that is expecting you. You\u2019re given a great room but told the kitchen is closed so there wouldn\u2019t be any room service and because it\u2019s a holiday there\u2019s nothing near by that\u2019s still open.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/billpstudios.blogspot.com\/2013\/06\/laptop-travel-nightmare-what-would-you.html\" target=\"_blank\">Article continued here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This post is excerpted with Bill&#8217;s permission from his blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/travelnightmare150.jpg\" alt=\"travelnightmare150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43976\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a long trip, you check into your hotel and reach into your bag only to discover your computer is missing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[4490],"class_list":["post-43971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bill-pytlovany","tag-travel-tips"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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