The Price for Getting to the Airport Three Hours Early

Perhaps the most boring, unnerving portion of the entire trip was the long wait in Newark airport. For some reason the normally punctual Germans at Lufthansa took a long time getting us on our plane. As a result we left Newark terminal half an hour later than scheduled. Then we sat on the taxiway while twenty planes in front of us took off first.

East European Jaunt 2007

December 19th 2007
Planning for this trip began more than 9 months before, at the end of February 2007. I had been dreaming for years about visiting some of the old Cold War era countries that had pretty much been off-limits for us. Back in our glory days working for the airlines, Gail and I had surreptitiously wandered close to the East-West border on many of our trips to Germany and Austria. We were always a li ... read more

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