I had to be escorted by armed guards to go fetch my bag at the baggage carousel. The Austrian border polizei were very nice, to be honest … but they couldn’t let me in. I thought that you couldn’t stay more than 90 days in a particular country.
I had this crazy idea that the clock started over after my going back to the US for a month. All the time I spent in Hungary earlier this year counted against my credit. Turns out that I have overstayed my allotted period in the Schengen Area of the European Union. I flew into Vienna late tonight from London, but got hung up at the border crossing at the airport.
You know that 2004 Tom Hanks movie The Terminal, about the guy who gets stranded in an airport and can’t leave for years? Because I’m an idiot, I’m getting to live that movie tonight.
