"How I missed my international flight trying to catch Zangoose, then caught him at the airport!"

#PokemonGO: Hi! I just spent the last three months holidaying and touring in North and South America. A lot of this ended up being pokemon tourism, I always had my go+ on me to help me catch everything, spin every gym I could and in the end I caught every regional I could, Tauros in California, Corsola and Heracross in Peru.Two days before I'm due to head back to Australia Gen III drops. I was stuck in northern California in Modoc County and not too many pokemon spawn up there. I found out that there were two new regional pokemon (Plusle and Zangoose) that I might not be able to get again for a long time, until they do another pokemon go travel event or similar.That night I went looking around the town and managed to find a plusle! I was so happy. The next morning at 6am I would be leaving Modoc county and heading down to San Fransisco Airport. I thought I had plenty of time to stop by at Redding and try my luck for a Zangoose before leaving for good.Time was on my side and I stopped at Redding and ended up spending roughly an hour and a half eating and going around the Mt Shasta mall area looking for Zangoose and failing miserably. I think I caught two or three Plusle while looking for Zangoose, it was not looking good at all. I had spent too long and decided I should start to continue my drive and possibly I could go+ it while driving through San Fransisco.When I checked the time I realised I would only make it to my flight with an hour to check in! This was not part of the plan, I should have had more time to check in and spent too long in Redding without realising my time constraints!I panicked and left immediately. About two hours left until I arrive at SFO I really had to pee, however due to my time I decided to hold it in. This isn't terribly important to the story but it was definitely occupying a lot of my thinking space at the time.Due to traffic and such, taking two wrong turns going into the airport and trying to drop off my rental car I was ridiculously cutting it close. Once I was at the airport I had the crazy idea to run an incense to possibly spawn a Zangoose. While waiting for the trains to take me to the right terminal a Plusle spawned due to incense! This gave me a little hope I could get a Zangoose to spawn too.I finally arrive at the desk to check in my luggage and receive my boarding pass and predictably am told that I am too late. She actually told me if I was six minutes earlier she could have rushed me through the process, however she could not at this time. She could get me onto another flight though. Suddenly I thought I had more time to catch the zangoose. If I could get a flight leaving tomorrow that gives me a whole new day in a big city full of spawns to catch what I need.I ended up however getting a flight that departed in three hours. I was conflicted, happy to still be going home on time but devasted that I would not get my Zangoose. I went to the appropriate check in place, went through the scanners and was driven by bus to a separate terminal building with six pokestops and a gym and an hour and a half till my plane departed.I decided to do one last crazy scheme before I departed. I had over 1100 coins, so I bought an ultra box and after I took over the gym, just because, I set up lures on four of the pokestops and applied an incense. I watched two more plusle spawn, one from the incense and one from the lure. This inspired me to continue. The first round expired and I re-applied more lures and bought another incense. This entire time I was pacing back and forward along the terminal with all my carry-ons with me and a phone hooked up to a power bank in my pocket. It was fun! I was also holding my go+, it was doing all my catches for me unless it was yellow and I would manually catch the new pokemon. I had already caught two new pokemon in this process when suddenly the third popped up at around the twenty minute mark of the second round. My heart skipped a beat when out popped Zangoose from a lured pokestop!!With 40 minutes left until I leave America forever I caught the last regional I needed to catch. I was so relieved. I simply turned pokemon go off and sat down and waited for my flight. I was done, Goodbye US that was fun but I got all I needed from you ;)TLDR: Had a 6 hour commute with some spare time, used up all the spare time failing to catch a zangoose and missed my international flight home. While waiting the extra time I was given for the next flight managed to catch Zangoose by luring a pokestop. via /r/pokemongo http://ift.tt/2AMZDRr