| A website about sleeping in airports noted the best spot in FCO, the Rome airport, so when i arrived there at 11:00 PM, I went upstairs to the food court area where I found a place to spend the night. At 4:30 AM I went downstairs and checked in with Lufthansa for the flights to Munich, Chicago, and Louisville. The flights were a total of eighteen hours but we never encountered night, flying with the sun which remained at the same position on the horizon. I arrived in Louisville at 8:00 PM and went to stay with my sister Mary's family. |
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| One of the residents at Collegio Maryknoll, the Maryknoll house in Rome, is Fr. Gigi, a priest from Kerala in India who is working on his thesis for his doctorate in theology. |
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| In the food court area, there were three options for sleeping overnight: some found benches (although with arms which really got in the way); some slept on the floor; and the latecomers opted for the wide windowsills. |
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| I booked my flight to Rome with United Airlines but they scheduled me flying several sectors with Lufthansa. Going to Rome I went through Frankfurt; returning from Rome I went through Munich. The Lufthansa terminals in those two cities were some of the best I have ever seen. |
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| The flight from Munich to Chicago went north of the British Isles and then across Greenland (shown here). |
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| Chicago O'Hare Airport is a huge sprawling place put together piecemeal over the years rather than fully planned. One of the nuisances there is this long tunnel underneath the apron and taxiways which connects Concourse B and Concourse C. |
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