Albuquerque International Sunport

When Thiel's flight from Los Angeles to New York had to make an emergency landing last week, he did not sulk.

He befriended nine strangers in his temporary home, the Albuquerque Airport, and took a group trip to play arcade games at a nearby Dave & Buster's.

I did make lifelong friends, Thiel, 29, said on Friday, lounging on a zebra print armchair in the Hotel Chelsea in Manhattan.

Although he was in town to attend his first New York Fashion Week, he had just made a reservation with his airport buddies to get dinner the following night.

Oh.

So I'm about eight deep in the Budget rental car line in Albuquerque Airport, and my man is getting chewed by every single person whom graces his presence at the rental car counter.

Right.

And I got close enough to hear the reason the reamings were occurring.

Come on.

Albuquerque, in fact, one thing that's interesting is we've had rain reported at the Sunport six times.

The past six days, we've had some rain reported at the Sunport, and it's totaled or amounted to officially at the Sunport, of course, the official reporting site, 1.35 inches.

Yeah.

And that brings our monthly total for September to 1.37 inches, which puts us above average for

So what else is good news? Just in the journal.

Just in a journal, people like our Sunport.

That's good.

That's good.

What's that, what's the Albuquerque airport that's so cute? Sun, Sun-

The Albuquerque Sunport.

Yes.

I love the Sunport.

Yeah, it, it was a, yeah, we left, we left the charming airport.

The Sunport.

Yeah, we left the charming little tiny Sunport, you know? And then hop in an Uber, and it is a 11-minute drive to the restaurant, and an eight-minute drive back to the airport.

Yeah.

I mean, that's kind of dream-