Alex de Carvalho

Twitter updates for 2009-07-07

by Alex. Average Reading Time: less than a minute.

  • Return home from Rio became a saga. Finally landed in Miami. Feel­ing of relief. #fb http://yfrog.com/epnhoj #
  • Return home from Rio turned into a saga. Finally landed in Miami. It’s good to be home. #
  • The Brazil­ian immi­gra­tion offi­cer ripped off the bio page of my pass­port — by mis­take. She stamped it and did not admit guilt. #fb #
  • So air­line denied me board­ing when they checked my pass­port, claim­ing it was invalid — which it wasn’t. They’d seen my pass­port at check­ing! #
  • So I spent next day get­ting a let­ter from Embassy. Two glitches: the Con­sul in Rio was on vaca­tion. And phone sys­tem at the Embassy was down #
  • US Immi­gra­tion offi­cer wasn’t in the least bit phased by the ripped bio page: “stuff hap­pens.” He advised me to get a new pass­port, though #
  • RT my friend @nica­blogs Mid­night tonight is dead­line for vot­ing double-volcanic Ome­tepe island as 7th nat­ural won­der http://vivaometepe.com #