Leaving for Egypt

We left home around 9:30 am to make the hour drive up I-75 to the Cincinnati airport. We parked at our usual source OneStopParking at the Hilton off Turfway since we can park for about $5 per day and the free shuttle is reliable. Our drive was uneventful, and the short trip to the airport from the Hilton was pleasant since we rode with two pilots how shared interesting stories of some of their pleasure travels.

The Global Entry pass was great since we went straight through airport security with no line then didn’t have to take shoes or jackets off. We also didn’t have to take anything out of our carry-on bags. We had some time in the airport before our 2 pm flight departed so we ate the lunch we packed and walked around between the concourses until our flight to New York.

We got to JFK airport a little ahead of schedule and waited for Mark & Cindy to arrive. They had come to New York a few days earlier and had taken time to visit a few sites including the memorial at the site of the World Trade Center. They met us at our gate then we went to one of the airport vendors for dinner, Mary & I had salads then split a sandwich. Mark & Cindy were not very hungry because they had eaten a large lunch while sightseeing earlier, so they just had a snack.

After leaving the airport food court and returning to our departure gate, Cindy realized that she had lost her wallet and cell phone. She and Mark ran back to the food court and bathroom to search for the missing items with no success. The wallet had her credit and debit cards, driver’s license, Global Entry ID and several hundred dollars in cash. She was pretty disappointed to have lost them but was glad that she had put her passport in her carry-on bag and could board our red-eye flight that was leaving at 7 pm.

Our flight was uneventful with Mark and Cindy in the seats behind us on the flight. The seats were fairly comfortable, but neither of us had much success in getting much sleep. I watched “The Current Wars” and a little of the animated “Addams Family” movie. Mary watched “Maleficent 2” and Amazing Grace, the Aretha Franklin documentary which she enjoyed.  We tried to sleep some but without much success.