Day 15 - Friday, June 28 - Athens to Home

There was heavy traffic in Athens on the way to the airport but once we hit the expressway, it went pretty quickly. Overall it only took 45 minutes to get to the airport.

When we were about to go through security, I was pulled aside by a security guard and was a bit apprehensive about what would happen next as he escorted me through the barrier. But he was putting us in the diplomatic passport and express security check line. Unfortunately, for reasons unknown, the express line was moving much slower than the regular line. It was the same at the United check-in - there was one "express" counter and 4 regular counters.

We relaxed in the airport lounge until it was time to depart - on time!

We flew over the Italian-Swiss alps and had a spectacular view of the snow-covered mountains.

Our flight arrived an hour early. Using the Mobile Pass app on my phone, it took only a couple minutes to go through customs as only one person was in line ahead of us. The regular customs line was pretty long.

We left Hertz with the rental car at 4:30 and the traffic was very heavy on the Garden State Parkway, not very surprising for rush hour on a Friday afternoon. It was surprisingly light on Rt 17 and the NY Thruway so we arrived home at 7:30 after a stop for Burger King fries at the Thruway rest area.

It is very green at home. We had about 1.5" of rain while we were gone. The garden did reasonably well and the weeds even better!

We were surprised to see the cover of The Week magazine which had a drawing of the Rialto bridge in Venice that was from the same location as a photo of David! See below.

Alps from our window

Back home - no red Cadillac this time
David at Rialto Bridge

Cover article of The Week while we were away



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