Traveling

It was a long few days of travel. We started by heading out in two busses from Philadelphia and spending the first day traveling to JFK. After clearing security, eating, and making a few last minute phone calls, we were all on our way to Istanbul (was Constantinople). The flight was long and dull. The monotony was broken by constant food being served to us from the flight crew and an attempted game of UNO. I say attempted because we were told by some gentleman that we couldn’t play because we were being too loud and he wanted to sleep (Can we have our ball back, Mr.?). Some 10-12 hours later, we arrived in Istanbul, an amazing city we were unable to see because we were unable to leave the international terminal for 6-7 long hours. Finally, however, we hopped a flight on Air Moldova from Istanbul to Chişinau. It only took about an hour and flying over the country, I thought, “Wow, this looks like Iowa.” Moldova does look a lot like Iowa, in that there is agriculture everywhere. Although, being in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains makes for more beautiful natural scenery.