Travel Tuesday

I’m en route back to Grand Forks (aka Grand Borks) and have a few thoughts about travel this year. First, travel is karmic. My flight home from Cyprus last year was an epic clusterfuck which involved two overnights and late flights. This year, I managed to change my itinerary at the last minute to a better itinerary (and to avoid a 75 minute layover in the Athens which would make it impossible to make a connecting flight), flights were all one time, seats were great, and while I still hate travel, it was not bad. Second, one my flight from Athens to Cyprus in the spring, we were joined by a group of Special Olympic athletes who had just represented Cyprus at some competition. They were incredibly joyful. I’m not prone to respond to joy as an emotion (except among dogs), but this group made the last leg of a long trip from Grand Forks to Cyprus into something that I’ll remember for a long time. On my flight from Cyprus to Athens on the first leg of my flight home, we were joined by 70…