Was feeling a little frantic Monday morning when I woke up 30 minutes before Berta would pick up and take me to the shuttle to the Phoenix airport. But of course, we made it on time.

04 Phoenix airport AZ (1024x768)

Decided to check both my pieces of luggage so I wouldn’t have to deal with anything while touring in Frankfurt Tuesday.

Went through security twice as I accidentally walked back out of the boarding area. It went very smoothly.

There’s actually an outdoors smoking area on the gate side of security. Sweet!

07 Flying out of Phoenix AZ (768x1024)

The skies were clear over Phoenix.

15 Flight 952 to DC (1024x768)

But further east the clouds settled in to create a wavy blanket. Experienced a few bumps during the four hour flight.

16 Flight 952 to DC (1024x768)

Opened up a little when landing in DC. And most unbelievable, this airport offers several special smoking rooms, thick enough to cut with a knife.

Now sitting in Frankfurt waiting for, something. The plane is broken and of course only business class gets rebooked immediately. Was suppose to leave 1.5 hours ago. No free WIFI so need to decide whether to pay Germany’s T-Mobile 8 Euro for 60 minutes. Hmmmm.

I’m very tired and getting hungry enough to eat a flight attendant.