Day one Flight to MUC-ATH

Crazy heavy traffic on way to airport down I-77. Waze GPS said the same time regardless of whether we went 77 or 52 so I chose 77. Total bottleneck around Huntersville for no apparent reason other than people rubbernecking at the construction going on I guess. Then suddenly the lanes opened wide and zoom! Makes no sense. Waze does a good job of estimated arrival time based on what it knows about delays. Was only a few minutes off.

Made it to airport around 4:10. Freaked us out for a moment when it said Parking Lot 1,2,4 were all closed. No idea what happened to Lot 3. Never saw it. We kept driving and suddenly saw a Parking Lot North that had a spot. Parked the van and the bus was sitting there waiting for us. 20 minutes later we were in the terminal. The line looked long going Thru TSA but like I-77 suddenly started moving quickly. We had TSA pre-check although never saw the sign for it didn’t have to take my iPad out or take my jacket or shoes off. Just threw our bags on the conveyer and walked thru the metal detector - done and in the terminal st 4:50 pm with boarding at 6. .

Boarded on time. Plane took off about 6:55, 20 minutes later than scheduled. Watched the movie “Wonder”- such a good movie. Put it on your list for sure. Barbecue chicken, green beans, dressing, salad with Italian dressing, roll, slice of cheese, dinner roll, blueberry oat bar, 2 glasses of wine. Bailey’s , coffee - doing well! Midnight as I pound this out.

-45 degrees outside - was going to step out for some fresh air - that changed my mind. 36000’ - moon is out. 8.5 hr flight to München (none of that Munich stuff!) No screaming babies!

3/10 - touchdown at 3:15 a.m Winston- Salem time 0918 German time. Just bumped into a guy from Romania that I sold foreign currency to just a day ago at AAA!!Read more