A German tourist sets out to visit his girlfriend in Sydney, yet types in ‘Sidney’ in the Internet booking and winds up near Sidney, Montana. The typo is understandable, lord knows I make too many of them, but if you’re looking at your flights, wouldn’t you recognize it takes more than two hours to fly from Portland to Sydney, Australia?

“I did wonder but I didn’t want to say anything,” Gutt told the Bild newspaper. “I thought to myself, you can fly to Australia via the United States.”

Gutt’s airline ticket routed him via the U.S. city of Portland, Oregon, to Billings, Montana. Only as he was about to board a commuter flight to Sidney — an oil town of about 5,000 people — did he realize his mistake.

I’ve never heard of anyone trying to go to Paris, France and ending up waiting for a puddle jumper to take them to Paris, Texas. Maybe that’s because they know if they were in the DFW airport, it would take more than 45 minutes to fly to France.