I'm going to follow this one

[Deleted]

This is a cool feel good story...well it is having a happy ending

www.msn.com/en-ca/travel/news/jordan-axani-finds-woman-with-ex-girlfriends-name-for-free-trip-around-the-world/ar-BBgUASe?ocid=ASUDHP

[chiver78]

that's pretty cool! sounds like an opportunity I'd probably have jumped at back when I was 23, too

[The Captain]

Nope, not me.  Especially since she has a SO in the picture.

Even if he is the nicest guy in the world, it's still a little creepy.

[Deleted]

With this much publicity that guy is not going to be trying anything.

[zibazinski]

Geez, I have such a common first and last name, it seems I should have made that list. 

[TheOtherMe]

At her age, I would have jumped at the chance.

[Deleted]

At my age I would have jumped at it! Wrong name and probably not the traveling companion he was looking for

[Tennesseer]

Good for both of them and I hope they have a good, platonic time.

And kudos to Marriott International for offering them two free rooms in each of the cities on their itinerary.

[Artemis Windsong]

How delightful that he found someone.  Maybe this will bloom into something better.  I know they will have a wonderful time.

[Value Buy]

Sony pictures should try buying the rights to this, and

make a movie.

[TheOtherMe]

Dec 17, 2014 22:07:24 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

At my age I would have jumped at it! Wrong name and probably not the traveling companion he was looking for

I figured at my age, I would not have been an acceptable traveling companion.  

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

I'm trying to figure out how this works, because on any international plane ticket I have purchased, I have had to include my passport number too.  I remember this clearly, because I bought our tickets to Turkey several years ago and I needed to call TD to get his passport number.

Even now, when we go to Mexico, the airline reservation asks for passport info on it, not just name.

[Tennesseer]

Dec 19, 2014 16:48:27 GMT -5 The Walk of the Penguin Mich said:

I'm trying to figure out how this works, because on any international plane ticket I have purchased, I have had to include my passport number too.  I remember this clearly, because I bought our tickets to Turkey several years ago and I needed to call TD to get his passport number.

Even now, when we go to Mexico, the airline reservation asks for passport info on it, not just name.

In this case, no passport number was required for either the Canadian citizens or the airline they are flying when booking. Just the name of the passengers.

[Angel!]

18 days traveling with a stranger...by the end they will either be best of friends and she will be dumping the current BF or they will hate each other & it will have been the worst trip ever.

One way or another I don't see the trip ending well for her, but I could be wrong.

[Deleted]

I hope she puts up blog or twitter. Waiting to see fireworks when he starts asking her to pay for activities since he paid tickets. Article says tickets cash value is $5000, but how they have any value since can't be turned in? Cash Value is $0.

[Malarky]

My best trip ever involved traveling with one of my bff's and others we met along the way.  Sometimes we were a party of two, sometimes a party of ten.  I count the "random strangers" I met as some of the best friends I've ever made.  

If only I were free and had the right name....

I hope they play this out and have the time of their lives!

[Tennesseer]

A Canadian man who sprang to fame after offering a free round-the-world trip to a woman with the same name as his ex-girlfriend has returned from the jaunt with his chosen namesake, although to the dismay of those following the story, love did not blossom between the pair.

Jordan Axani, a 28-year-old Toronto real estate developer turned charity founder, made it back to Canada on Monday morning with Elizabeth Quinn Gallagher, but told the Guardian the pair had “forged a brother-sister-like relationship”.

Axani had made headlines in 2014 after offering an air ticket to any Canadian named Elizabeth Gallagher. He had booked a three-week vacation with his ex-girlfriend, but after they split was unable to change the name on the flights.

That’s where Axani’s new travelmate, a 23-year-old student from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, came in. Gallagher, who goes by Quinn, replied to a Reddit post Axani had submitted – along with other hopeful Elizabeth Gallaghers – and was selected. Gallagher had made it clear before the trip that she had a “pretty serious” boyfriend, but that had not stopped romantics, and journalists, from hoping the globetrotters might fall for one another.

Unfortunately, it was not to be.

Love not on the itinerary as Canadian pair return from round-the-world trip