Your flight lands at 9:30am.
You have 10 hours until your next flight.
It’s time to find water.
Only Turkey’s airport doesn’t have any water fountains.
So to McDonalds you go.
$1.23 for lukewarm water, highway robbery.
Cristin their location with a sandwich from home and a kiwi; it’s nap time.
After drifting in and out of rest, people watching is up next while sounds of turtored poets play in the background.
A call with an English teacher from Turkey, and it’s time to hunt down a lounge.
Discovering a rest area with a shower you go for a round before moving to a lounge with food.
Hangout there for two and a half hours, have a dinner of chicken, and couscous and it’s time to go to your gate.
The worst part about traveling, is traveling.
But with the power of a lounge, anything is possible.