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The wind nearly hardened my sweat-dampened hair. After several long minutes, I was able to climb into the backseat of a taxi. I gave the name of my motel. Nothing. I gave the old name of my motel. Now the driver was totally confused. I gave the address. In addition to English, he appeared to have no knowledge of the highway. We headed off at about 3 miles an hour.

I felt my world slowly unraveling. I envisioned myself spending the next hour on dark and empty highways looking for a sordid motel with a mute driver. I asked him to take me back to the taxi stand. This, thankfully, he understood.

There was now a parade of taxis. I got out in the middle of it and called to the taxi captain. He asked where I was going. He wasn’t impressed. “Two stars,” he said. He explained to my driver the route he needed to take. It sounded complicated to me; like Fulani to my driver. (Unless, of course, that was the language he spoke.) Eventually the captain told him to go home.

I asked the captain how to get to the Marriott, which we had passed on our fruitless loop. He directed me downstairs to a shabby, deserted, underground passageway that nicely continued the bad dream nature of the evening while cementing the suspicion that I had arrived in a surprisingly frigid developing country.

A train approached and with it my salvation. I got off at the first stop and took the escalator to the hotel lobby. A kind man at the reception desk told me there were no available rooms, which was a blessing, as at that point I would have seriously considered spending $289 for one. I asked if he had ever heard of the Knight’s Inn. He said it wasn’t in a very good area. Then he called a number of nearby lodgings. They all had familiar names, and I wondered why the service that United used hadn’t included them. One had rooms, the man told me, but no shuttle service, so he declined for me. (Had word already spread of my taxi disaster?) Eventually he found me a room at the Best Western. He pointed to the entrance and said that the shuttle would pick me up there in about five minutes.

Once in my warm room I called the Woodland Inn and told them that I would not be coming after all. Then, marveling at the ever-changing fates of the traveler, I turned on the TV and watched the end of the Oscars.

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