Monday, July 09, 2012

The first leg: IAD-FRA

Doodle and Divs drop me off at Dulles for a United flight to Frankfurt.  I watch Salt and try to get some sleep to prepare for the even longer flight from Frankfurt to Johannesburg.  I wake up an hour before landing, eat United's mediocre breakfast (which, sadly, is better than the United Ramen they gave on my flight from Washington to Beijing last year-yuck) and land in Frankfurt.  Having an eleven hour wait there, I wait for everyone else to get off the plane.  The flight attendant says "Are you going back with us to Washington?" I tell him I have a 11 hour layover.  He suggests I go into town and try the asparagus as it is in season.  Getting off the plane, I enter the transit area, see the long lines at immigration and decide it's better to stay in the terminal and read and relax.  Now I know how Tom Hanks felt in that movie!


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