The bizarre tale of the world's last lost tourist, who thought Maine was San Francisco
The bizarre tale of the world's last lost tourist, who thought Maine was San Francisco FacebookTwitterEmail Erwin KreuzWikimedia Commons / Blair Heagarty In 1977, 49-year-old German brewery worker Erwin Kreuz blew his life savings on his first flight — a once-in-a-lifetime birthday trip to San Francisco. He’d seen it on TV, and he wanted to visit the Wild West. As the World Airways flight from Frankfurt stopped to refuel in a small airport in Bangor, Maine, before continuing on to California, an air stewardess who had finished her shift told Kreuz to “have a nice time in San Francisco.â...
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