Mike and Carol are headed back to Europe.
In Atlanta we take MARTA to the airport. On the shuttle bus,we meet 2 middle-aged women, one from Salt Lake City, the other from Albuquerque, flying on the same plane as us.We see them again later: they have a problem. One of them has a passport expiring at the end of June; the airline is enforcing the six month rule and refusing to allow her to board. But that is her story, not ours...
Time to nap awaiting our departure. Eventually we proceed to our gate. It takes FOREVER to load a 400 passenger airplane! About 3/4 of the way into loading, there is a storm with lightening. Loading stops. Lucky for us, we are not yet on the plane and have the relative comfort of the concourse.
Mike has communicative seatmates; Carol does not. She forgoes the tempting movies in favor of sleep. Mike also dozes. The airplane food and drinks are good and perhaps overly plentiful.
We are going to get in late, and most of the plane will miss their connections. Not us. We deliberately left ourselves 5 hours to transfer in Charles De Gaulle (CDG) Airport.
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