January 4, 2009

• Headed Home

  
  

  Tel Aviv -> Istanbul -> Frankfurt -> Amsterdam -> DC ->
  San Francisco. 36 hours of flights and airports. Arrive in SF 9pm. Work
  Mon. @ 9am. half a minute ago

  You’ve never gone through security until you’ve gone through Israeli Airport Security…
  1.) Quiz about what you did while standing in line for the baggage X-Ray
  2.) X-Ray your bags in a machine the size of a tank
  3.) Random Bag Check – unpack everything, repack it all
  4.) Boarding Pass Check
  5.) Combination: Metal detector for yourself. X-Ray for your bag. Swab for chemicals and explosives.
  6.) Concourse Security
  7.) Then, sometimes for fun, Getting-on-the-airplane Security Checks.

  For a Good Time Make It Centauri Time

  

  This, my friends, is what a $5.27 Coca-Cola looks like in the Istanbul airport. It is serving as my breakfast.

  ps – I am attempting to update with a picture from each Terminal on my way back to the States.

  Hours Awake: 21 of 21
  Flights Remaining: 4 of 5

  Was Ist Das?

  

  Frankfurt Airport

  Hours Awake: 41 of 48
  Flights Remaining: 3 of 5

  Home, Again. Home, Again.

  I finally arrived at about 9:30pm.

  Hours Awake: 49 of 65
  Flights Remaining: 0 of 0

  (If you’re wondering how come I was awake so long: My first flight required me to be at the Tel-Aviv airport at 3am. So there is an entire day of just being awake tacked on before I started traveling.)

  • 1:50 am
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