Four weeks of travel are nearly over, and we’re happy with our decision to overnight near New York’s JFK International Airport rather than push on all the way to Honolulu. Zurich-to-Hawaii in one day is for road warriors with a stronger tolerance for airplane seating than we have.
And speaking of air travel, here are a couple more thoughts about the airports we just passed through. Zurich International is almost worth planning a trip around just to experience what a first-class airport has to offer. And maybe it’s just because the Swiss built it. Like the country, the airport is clean and really presents well.
As for Brussels Airport, where we picked up our trans-Atlantic flight, we’d recommend bypassing it if possible. For one thing, you have to walk a mile; as Lennie observed, the terminals are interminably long. But a bigger issue is the lack of information available for travelers. There were no announcements or posted signs on where to go within the terminal to find the connecting flight. It was strictly trial and error.
As for JFK, maybe we were just happy our long day of flying had concluded, or maybe it was the passport control officer’s jokes about the rubber bands that were holding his equipment together (where’s all that Homeland Security money going?), but JFK didn’t seem that bad. Of course, we weren’t hanging around in a terminal or trying to find a meal. Tomorrow may be another story as we head back to Hawaii.
Hawaii – where we’ll close this travel journal the way we started it, with a photo taken from our own lanai overlooking the beautiful Blue Pacific. We’re almost home!
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