By Jeff - July 3, 2009
Well, finally – I am back in the good old USA and will sleep in my own home tonite.
If you remember I was supposed to come home on Thursday night – but due to “restricted airspace” over Hungary, we were force to delay our take off for 1 hour, causing me to miss my flight (the last Northwest/KLM/Delta flight out to the USA, I might add) by 10 minutes – therefore forcing me to spend the night in the Amsterdam airport. Fortunately they have 2 hotels that are built into the airport. The room was clean and sort of nice. It was very small – but really, how much do you need while sacking out before the next flight? I slept like garbage though – until about 6:15 – then my 6:30 wake up call came in the middle of a dream. In my dream the other person’s cell phone kept ringing. I wondered why he wouldn’t answer. Then my brain said, “wake up, stupid!” Oh yeah . . .
The flight home was fairly uneventful. I was a little sad. I finally got a window seat, during the daylight hours, and wouldn’t you know it – all I got to see was the tops of clouds! I didn’t get to see any of the U.K. or much of the Atlantic. The clouds did open up enough for me to see part of Greenland as we passed over.
Before you think I am a total geography whiz – they had GPS monitors in the airplane where you could track the progress. It included a little map graphic and an airplane icon to show where you were. There was also flight data, such as altitude, airspeed, miles traveled and miles to go. Did you know that the temp at 39,000 feet is 68 degrees below zero? Neither did I until last Thursday.
Lisa and Gracie picked me up today at the Rochester airport – Grace did not give me the cold shoulder as she has done other times I have been gone. We grabbed our luggage and zipped home. Yes, I kissed the ground as promised.
All in all, it was a good trip – just frustrating along the way a few times.
I must close out this note, as my body thinks that is now 4:00 a.m. and has been up since 6:30.
Thus endeth the Budapest saga. Thanks for reading.
Have a happy July 4th.
JBD
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