Yep, lookin’ like our island.

So……almost home-sweet-home, in L.A. between flights. Been a while, so I figured I’d get in one more passion before the whole thing ends. First pitch, Dodgers vs Tigers:

Also, I wish I had known that I could have brought my scooter onboard, to go into the overhead bin. (and the very nice Turkish flight attendant gentleman reads the appropriate announcement from his phone, in his very best rehearsed English)

The new Istanbul airport is impressive (it opened just before the pandemic, and then essentially closed for 18 months). But there’s still a nut they haven’t cracked…..you have to walk to the far end of the airport, go down to gate 3G ( there are lots of 3G gates - 3g1, 3g2, 3G3, etc), and then when you get to the correct 3G gate, a bus drives you 16 minutes/2 miles to the other end of the airport property to find a plane. We did this three times on this trip. You may or may not be able to see the actual airport building in the distance.

The lounge at the new Istanbul airport is enormous. We go from Istanbul to Amsterdam, Amsterdam to San Francisco, and San Francisco to L.A. Kind of a slog.