If I say it often enough will it be true? The trip becomes longer and longerOn the morning of Tuesday, June 9th at 9:45 am we left the house for the airport in Austin, TX. Our flight was supposed to be taking off at 11:30. Unfortunately when we got there we learned that there had been a lightening storm in Newark, NJ where we were supposed to be transferring for our Athens flight and so everything was delayed. After a long wait in line an attendent rerouted our flight so that now we went from Austin-Newark-Frankfurt-Athens.
That change made it so that we now missed our flight from Athens to Samos and therefore the ferry to Turkey (Kushadisi). As I write it is 9:45 pm on Wednesday, June 10, 2009. It has now been more than 24 hours since that time and I am sitting with my foot up on Steve’s lap because it is swollen. We are in an overnight ferry on our way to Sam
os from Athens. There is a Jackie Chan movie playing on a screen at the front of the room in English with Greek subtitles and I can hear cell phones going off, people speaking Greek (I assume that is the language they are speaking) and the rumble of the engine on the ferry.All along the way I have been collecting pictures and sounds of my experience. I am posting them here for your interest and amusement. We still have the all night ferry ride, a taxi from one side of Samos to the other, another 2 hour ferry to Kushadisi, and finally another taxi drive to our hotel and finally a bed. The professor says, “I owe you one.”
