Amazingly, a friend was able to drive me all the way to the airport by car =D. Meaning, I was able to leave Friday at 1am, versus Thursday at 1pm (via public transportation during daylight hours).
It was a foggy night, where I noticed Romania has no reflectors on their streets = it was hard to see the roads. I also noted that white lines are great and yellow lines serve no purpose for guiding cars at night, but having any street markings is better than none.
I got onto the plane on time and I took KLM back.
The first trip was Bucharest to Amsterdam, then Amsterdam to San Francisco. The 2nd trip was cool! because we went OVER the planet.
I saw a lot of ice.
And a red sunset.
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Now the journey back to my site in Romania...
After Thanksgiving dinner at the U.S. Ambassador's house, Jeanelle and I missed our train, so we wandered around in Bucharest with all my luggage trying to find this hostel (but we later realized the google map was wrong) and after 1.5 hours of walking, we found a taxi and he drove us to the place and it cost us like $1.5 (sheeze, we should have tried that sooner). The hostel was completely full of other PCVs, so the dude let us sleep on the couch in the common area, and we didn't have to pay for lodging. Oh! The taxi driver didn't let us pay that $1.5 either! = What a thankful day!
It was warm and safe and free. I couldn't has asked for more.
On the brigher side of wandering in the dark in Bucuresti lost and with almost no cell phone credits: Jeanelle and I got lots of exercise, I wasn't traveling alone because I had Jeanelle, and we saw lots of new and cool Romanian monuments. There was this large erection with a next speared through it.
It was a foggy night, where I noticed Romania has no reflectors on their streets = it was hard to see the roads. I also noted that white lines are great and yellow lines serve no purpose for guiding cars at night, but having any street markings is better than none.
I got onto the plane on time and I took KLM back.
The first trip was Bucharest to Amsterdam, then Amsterdam to San Francisco. The 2nd trip was cool! because we went OVER the planet.
I saw a lot of ice.
And a red sunset.
____________________________________________
Now the journey back to my site in Romania...
After Thanksgiving dinner at the U.S. Ambassador's house, Jeanelle and I missed our train, so we wandered around in Bucharest with all my luggage trying to find this hostel (but we later realized the google map was wrong) and after 1.5 hours of walking, we found a taxi and he drove us to the place and it cost us like $1.5 (sheeze, we should have tried that sooner). The hostel was completely full of other PCVs, so the dude let us sleep on the couch in the common area, and we didn't have to pay for lodging. Oh! The taxi driver didn't let us pay that $1.5 either! = What a thankful day!
It was warm and safe and free. I couldn't has asked for more.
On the brigher side of wandering in the dark in Bucuresti lost and with almost no cell phone credits: Jeanelle and I got lots of exercise, I wasn't traveling alone because I had Jeanelle, and we saw lots of new and cool Romanian monuments. There was this large erection with a next speared through it.
