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A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco
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Re: A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco
#42Not sure how someone could make that mistake. In SF the water is on left and Maine the water is on right.
It's on the left in both, and on the right in both. It depends which way you're facing, and the sort of person making this mistake seems unlikely to know which way north is.
Re: A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco
#43There's also the classic of people leaving for San Jose Costa Rica and landing in San Jose California. Happened to a friend of mine, he wasn't too embarrassed by it because he shared the whole story on Facebook
Don’t know if it is still true, but Alaska used to have a daily flight from San Jose to San Jose. I always found that amusing when I saw the monitor waiting for my Portland (Oregon) flight.
Re: A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco
#44I lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (eh?) for 23 years and we have similar stories. There is an island that is part of Nova Scotia called Cape Breton with a city named Sydney (so Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada) with population of ~30K. Every few years we get a tourist that confuses that with Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. They generally realize something is wrong when they switch planes in Halifax from a Jet (B…
Saint John, New Brunswick and St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador must confuse people too. I never remember which one is which without Googling it.
St John, Indiana is about 35 miles SSE of Chicago.
Re: A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco
#45Not sure how someone could make that mistake. In SF the water is on left and Maine the water is on right.
Not everyone can afford a compass, Trumper
Re: A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco
#46Re: A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco
#47I lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (eh?) for 23 years and we have similar stories. There is an island that is part of Nova Scotia called Cape Breton with a city named Sydney (so Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada) with population of ~30K. Every few years we get a tourist that confuses that with Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. They generally realize something is wrong when they switch planes in Halifax from a Jet (B…
Saint John, New Brunswick and St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador must confuse people too. I never remember which one is which without Googling it.
I personally know several people who have made that exact mistake, ending up in not just the wrong city but the wrong province by travelling to St John's when they meant to go to Saint John or vice versa.
Re: A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco
#48There's also the classic of people leaving for San Jose Costa Rica and landing in San Jose California. Happened to a friend of mine, he wasn't too embarrassed by it because he shared the whole story on Facebook
I've almost done the reverse. I avoided actually booking the flight because I was trying to figure out why it was routing me from Illinois to Miami to get to California...
Re: A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco
#49There's also the classic of people leaving for San Jose Costa Rica and landing in San Jose California. Happened to a friend of mine, he wasn't too embarrassed by it because he shared the whole story on Facebook
It's funny how often this actually happens:
2013: https://elpeji.com/2013/12/03/study-abroad-gringa-takes-five...
2017: https://www.reddit.com/r/SanJose/comments/5lqnxb/redditor_bo...
And the opposite, landing in San Jose, CR https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/san-jose-travel-plane-...
Re: A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco
#50I lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (eh?) for 23 years and we have similar stories. There is an island that is part of Nova Scotia called Cape Breton with a city named Sydney (so Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada) with population of ~30K. Every few years we get a tourist that confuses that with Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. They generally realize something is wrong when they switch planes in Halifax from a Jet (B…
Extra bonus fun: Concur, everybody's favorite corporate flight booking engine, shows both Sydney, Nova Scotia and Sydney, New South Wales as "Sydney, NS" in the destination selection dropdown.