So at the end of August I packed 3 huge, and one big suitcases, and got on a Turkish Air jet in Chicago’s O’Hare airport. We flew for ten hours in a crowded jet with limited service. NO COFFEE! Three meals of sandwiches. Oh the Humanity!

So we landed at Istanbul, Turkey. It was a spacious airport, and would have been much more crowded were it not for Covid-19. A weary traveller, I, but no rest yet. Not wanting to miss my next flight I began looking on the board for the flight to Lviv, in Western Ukraine. It kept on not showing up. Arrrgh.

In one instance I thought I saw my destination on the board, so I tried to follow directions to that terminal. The sign said “Go this way” and I went that way. Then another sign said turn left. I turned left. Another sign said turn left again. I turned left again, but looked and saw my starting point about twenty meters away. I only needed to go down the steps to get where I needed (or thought I needed,) to be. I didn’t mention I was carrying a backpack with my computers, all the prescription drugs (I swear they were all prescription!) and testing devices for my diabetes.

Eventually all was made clear, I found my plane, sat down at the gate and drifted off to sleep. The ground crew woke me up to tell me to get on the plane. Oh well. Got on the plane and two hours later I was in the Lviv airport. Waiting for my four bags to show up. And waiting. I had immediately found one bag, but they seem to have thrown each one into a different part of the cargo hold, then put blankets over them or something. Eventually the ground crew found the rest of my bags and put them on the roller thingy they put baggage on.

I exited the airport with no further ado, sat down, and was met by my friend and colleague, Maria Mota, and her assistant. We got a taxi and moved my stuff to it, they negotiated a price, and got me to my location.

They showed me the location, and her assistant helped me move stuff around while Maria went to grab me some nifty goodies to eat. I was well treated by staff, I’ve got to tell you!

Eventually I hit the sack, woke up to a new day! I’ll post some of the pictures I took, and follow up with a new narrative. Until then, Be Seeing You.