I left Birmingham in the rain. The train to New Orleans was relatively empty. It was very nice to stretch out.
After arriving in New Orleans, I got an Uber. The driver didn’t pick me up in the correct spot. I know I was in the correct spot because I saw quite a few people getting picked up there. I had to walk and find her car.
Then she could not find the address of my apartment. I don’t blame her for this. But it was pretty chaotic because she kept driving around. The streets here are weird and there can be 2 street names parallel to each other. I finally told her to let me out at an intersection that Google maps said was a 2 minute walk to my apartment and I found it.
I was staying at Sonder Suites. I was supposed to check in yesterday and did not because I had to stay another night in Birmingham to be at an important work meeting today that I did not trust my hot spot for (there is no WiFi on Amtrak west of Chicago) and who wants to be talking in a work meeting on a train like an asshole anyway?
My apartment was non refundable, no changes, so I could not change the dates. I did have a tiny fear that since I had not checked in last night, it would have voided me out of the system, but it did not. You do not speak to any actual person with these types of stays. They email you a code to the building and a code to your room. No reception desk, nothing.
My room was really nice.
