Turkey!
Thu Sep 15 2005 04:05 MDT #We made it to Istanbul. At 4:30 A.M. - with no sleep. The flight was 2 hours long, with a time zone change taking off at like 1. They kept the lights on. And they served a MEAL. And kept making pointless announcements -in english malti and italian. No Sleep For YOU!.
Anyhow I was freaking useless. We could not get the pay phones to work. I seem to have lost the cell. We where like trapped by our uslessness till 6am -- which was about 1/2 hour after we bought a 5$ tall americano. At that point we decided to cab it too the hotel regardless. When we arrived at the Best Western. -- the very closed Best Western. But a kind kind gentleman taking a very early stroll -- told us to bang on the door. We did And the very nice counter staff got up and checked us in.
And then we got some sleep....