West Dover, Vermont
Sunday, July 1, 2007
The bags are packed and we are ready to go. After a week in West Dover, VT, we are headed for JFK tomorrow. We'll catch the sunrise somewhere over the Pacific and be in Munich for breakfast. It will be either a late lunch or early dinner in Ankara. I found what looked like a pretty cool boutique hotel in Ankara, but decided against staying there because we would have had to split into two rooms. It's just a hunch, but I think the disorientation from the plane trip and the strangeness of a new country are enough to tackle without having to sleep in a room away from Mom. So I decided to go with an American hotel chain that let me book four of us into a room with two (iki--Turkish for two) twin beds. I'm going to bring along an air mattress to make sure we all have somewhere to sleep. Of course, after a night on two planes, I think we'll all probably sleep very well. Radisson SAS, here we come. The most challenging part of the trip should come at the end. When we arrive in Ankara, we will be about 33 km north of the city and have to get a shuttle bus into the city center and then, I think, a taxi to the hotel.
We have probably 5 or so hours at JFK tomorrow before we take-off, so if I can get an internet connection that is not outrageously overpriced, I'll post again with the kids from there.
