Sunday, September 10, 2023; JFK
So we’re off on another adventure, a couple of weeks in Sicily with our traveling comrades Patti and David B. Stay tuned!
We started our evening at JFK with a bit of lounge hopping. We wondered why the Turkish Airlines lounge was so uncrowded; it was only when we went to get a bit of dinner that we realized that there was…no alcohol! The food, though, was pretty good and in any case worlds apart from what we would have gotten on the plane. We then went to the Lufthansa Lounge for a drink. This was considerably more crowded but had a decent beer selection: A Bitburger Pils, a Paulander Hefeweizen, and a Six Points Brooklyn lager.
We boarded our Swissair machine for Zurich with Swiss precision. I managed to get some sleep but Sue was distracted by a kind of show at the front of our cabin: a half dozen hassidic Jews not just praying and rocking, but performing all kinds of rituals in a way that disturbed the entire front of the cabin.
Title credit to Peter Robb and the Everly Brothers…