{"id":2704,"date":"2013-09-30T01:47:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T00:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j-ontheroad.at\/?p=2704"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:58:04","slug":"taking-your-job-to-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/wp_america2013\/index.php\/en\/2013\/09\/30\/taking-your-job-to-serious\/","title":{"rendered":"taking your job too serious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>29.09.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scheduled flight to Bogota is at 11:40. Fortunately, the taxi is at the hostel earlier than ordered, fortunately there is no traffic and I&#8217;m at the airport before 9:30. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wanted to check-in. The lady asks me if I have an onward ticket or when I will fly back to Austria. I show her my helmet and tell her that I&#8217;m traveling by motorcycle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, that is not acceptable. The entry requirements say, I need to have an exit or onward ticket. I&#8217;m pretty annoyed pretty fast and talk harsh with her. She offers me to buy a ticket. I asked her how much it costs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 700 USD. I&#8217;m about to ask, if she is crazy. She remains stubborn. I ask for Internet or a travel agency. Internet is slow, there are not travel agencies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have 1 hour to solve the problem. In short: I was not able to buy a cross-border bus ticket or a flight ticket. I try it again at the check-in and just hope I would get to another check-in counter. I&#8217;m lucky. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other lady asks me how long I will stay in Colombia and if I have an onward ticket. I say that I&#8217;ll stay a week in Colombia and then I will take the bus to Ecuador. She looks at me, like she is not very sure, but she checked me in.<br>Well I am on the plane. I&#8217;m curious what difficulties I will have to expect in Bogota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Bogota no problem at all. At the passport control again the usual questions: How long are you staying? Reason for traveling, business or vacation?<br>I: Transit. I&#8217;ll stay a week in Colombia, then I move on to Ecuador.<br>He, friendly: What? Only a week? You have to stay longer!<br>I got the stamp in the passport and could go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you for reading, J\u00fcrgen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29.09. The scheduled flight to Bogota is at 11:40. Fortunately, the taxi is at the hostel earlier than ordered, fortunately there is no traffic and I&#8217;m at the airport before 9:30. I wanted to check-in. The lady asks me if I have an onward ticket or when I will fly back to Austria. I show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,37],"tags":[241,799],"class_list":["post-2704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-201314-america","category-colombia","tag-colombia-en","tag-problems-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/wp_america2013\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/wp_america2013\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/wp_america2013\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/wp_america2013\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/wp_america2013\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/wp_america2013\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5148,"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/wp_america2013\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions\/5148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/wp_america2013\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/wp_america2013\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/wp_america2013\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-bauer.at\/wp_america2013\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}