Posted on 12/17/2014 4:54:30 PM PST by Gamecock
Remember Jordan Axani? He was the man left with an extra ticket for an around-the-world adventure when his girlfriend broke up with him. Undeterred from taking the trip, he set out to find another woman named Elizabeth Gallagher to use his ex's ticket. Fast forward a month...Axani has found his new Elizabeth Gallagher.
After the story came out, 28-year-old Axani received thousands of emails, including 18 from women named Elizabeth Gallagher who held Canadian passports. Ultimately, Axani chose 23-year-old Elizabeth "Quinn" Gallagher, a student and former member of the Canadian Coast Guard.
The two will meet in New York this week to embark on their three week trip that includes stops in Italy, Austria, France, Thailand and India. The two will be staying in separate hotel rooms and Gallagher will be responsible for her own food and souvenirs.
Jordan Axani wants to give you a free trip around the world...if you are Canadian and named Elizabeth Gallagher.
In case you were wondering, Gallagher has a "serious" boyfriend.
"He understands that I've always wanted to travel so while he's not happy I'm taking off for nearly a month at Christmas with a random guy, he's smiling through it," she told The Associated Press.
Stunned by the response his story received, Axani has started a charity to help "underprivileged and at-risk" people travel.
"The whole reason the charity started was there was a huge outpouring from people who wanted to travel the world and feared they wouldn't," Axani told ABC News.
Not to worry.
That's what student loans are for.
"He understands that I've always wanted to travel so while he's not happy I'm taking off for nearly a month at Christmas with a random guy, he's smiling through it," she told The Associated Press."
Well maybe its true now but I doubt it will be so when she gets back...
Her boyfriend had better rethink that relationship....the name that keeps ringing in my ear is ‘sucker’. She would not take off with another guy, separate rooms or not, if she were sure this boyfriend was her future.
Very not guilty!
Great a charity to give the “poor” a trip. Add that to the free phones, cable, heat, water, food, housing, medical, money and so many other things.
Don’t worry, honey. Just because I have a sugar daddy shouldn’t make you jealous . . .
What a great way to meet a woman. Wonder how much it cost Axani to have that story planted.
The name that keeps ringing in my ears regarding the boyfriend is “ doormat.”
Sounds about right.... or Milktoast, NO thank you.
She’s cute. Alls well that ends well?
I knew a guy who paid real big money to have completely anonymous people follow him all over the world, on one condition:
He would give them his itinerary and the the unknown person would take photos of him without him detecting the cameraman, and all the images would be mailed to him after the trip.
These were all expense paid gigs...Everything.
Personally ya couldn't pay me to go to foreign countries today....Not on Learjets with fully stocked limos at the destinations. For good reasons....
Great plot for a Hallmark made for tv romance. I bet they use it.
Am I on the right thread...?
5.56mm
Slightly off topic, but this shows how stupid the airlines policy of not allowing the name on a ticket to be changed. I once had a trip set up for a friend who can not attend, and the airline would not allow me to give it to another freind. What’s the big deal? It is my purchase, all it takes is a couple of keystrokes that I can do myself. But, I could have just found someone with the same name as friend, or at least an ID with that name on it.
Good choice.
Did you ping Laz?
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