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This is just the kind of pessimism I need to ballast my irrational exuberance
Okay. I'm in.

The vibe I'm getting is that he is not who he says he is. I'm thinking that instead of paying your airfare by using his AmEx Platinum card, he paid for it from the proceeds of his black market sales of human cadavers. I'm thinking that you better pack some sort of effective defensive weapon (not in your carry-on), or maybe just a bit of common sense and not even go on this trip.

Have you shared the information (flight, name of guy, etc.) with a few people back home? Do you have safeguards in place (e.g. "If my friend doesn't get a call from me by 2pm, she's calling the local cops, highway patrol, etc. and by the way I swallowed a small GPS tracking device" and do you have certain "panic" words set up with your friend back home, to alert them you're under duress, e.g. "hi Judy...just wanted to let you know that I got to Florida okay and it's wonderfully toasty here.")?

Has he mentioned anything about fava beans? Chianti?

Hairdog