I'm calling this Day .5 because it was after a lot of time change, an abriviated night and 2 hours of terrible sleep since the previous entry.
I knew the bike had made the flight to Calgary and was somewhere in YYC because of the very infrequent Tile pings. Tile is not in the same league as AIRtag. One thing that might help is if Tile gave them away to transportation workers. That would put a lot more people with the app around where things need to be tracked. And, hey, why do we need to track things anyway? Baggage gets scanned all the time. How can they be so good at losing things? UPS or Amazon can tell me exactly where my package is ... why can't baggage handlers? Why can't they at least look up the scans and tell you, "Yep, loaded on and off of the plane... Must be somewhere in the airport."
I did not get a "nearby" signal on the plane like I did on the previous flight but this plane was a lot bigger and may be better at blocking the signals. I hoped the bike was on the plane.
I met Aidan before Immigration and we went through together. We got to go through a very short line that had a self-scan passport and a little both that holds you as it scanns your face . Aidan walked in and the doors opened in a few seconds. My doors didn't open until the agent walked around from her booth and pushed a button. The tech is getting there.
At the Oversized Luggage we waiited and waited. There was a Canadian couple, Sterling and Lisa, from the same flight also waiting for bike boxes. Long after the last bags had been collected by the baggage agent we started the paperwork for missing baggage.
We left the baggage area with a paper receipt and the promise of an email from WestJet.
Aidan needed a SIM card because he overstayed the out of country limit on GoogleFi. There were a lot of stories on the internet of GoogleFi not being that strict with the 3 month limit, but they cut his data at 3 months and a week. His phone and texts still worked so he had been WiFi hopping at school but he needed data for this trip. The airport tourist kiosks all had SIM promos so we got him one there.
You do a lot of walking between terminals at CDG but they do have a tram between the main ones. 2ABC...EF are all connected but it's a long walk between them and they are oddly not sequential. 2E and 2B have 2A between them. The tram went straight to our hotel.
When we got to the room I saw on the Tile app the the bike had been picked up back at the terminal. We headed back there and through a crack in the partition I could see three bike boxes at the Oversized Bag area. At Baggage Service the guy said he couldn't give us the box even though we could see it because this airline was handled by a different company. He said someone from that company would be at 2B and we should see them and they would walk back and get the box. Then he asked since the boxes are where they should be, "Why didn't you wait?"
2B is a long way from 2E! When we got there we found an agent at the Baggage Service from the correct company but there was no one available to go to 2E. There would be someone there at 6:30am. She then asked, "Why didn't you wait?"
Back at the hotel, Aidan had his first legal drink. I ended up drinking half of it.
It's now 2am and just like at the start of the Camino (https://walk-caminodesantiago.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2022-10-05T13:26:00-07:00&max-results=7&start=25&by-date=false) I am wide awake.
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