Coast to Coast

My connector flight to Leonardo da Vinci went airborne from Atlanta yesterday. When your in-flight movie turns out to be another dud with dynamic duo J-Whoe and Ben Affleck (Jersey Girl) you end up making a lot of new friends on the plane. I met a girl from Jerusalem and we talked about Israel for a while, a group of 20 rowdy Texans who were planning to spend time gawking at the Sistine Chapel before they hopped another flight to Atheni land, and two stewardesses, excuse me, flight attendants, who regaled us with stories of electricity coursing through planes after direct hits from lightning.

A day-long layover and a standby flight later, I arrived in Athens with a couple AOB Asbury workers I met on the plane. We came face to face with what some might call an "opportunist" taxi cab driver. Turns out, we got taken for a ride--to the tune of 30 minutes, 38 euros and a "thank you very much-you must not be from around here?"

Anyway, we're on the ground and we'll be waking up to the Grecian landscape and a Grecian sunrise. Ehfaristo poli!