Istanbul and bonus two days in Reykjavik
Time zones get a little odd when you're 11,276 m above the Hudson Bay, but it's nearly 19:00 in the time zone I just left, and when I hit the ground again it will be 4:00 there. I've had excellent luck flying standby in the past, getting to Abbotsford and Vancouver many times and to Bosnia, Venice, Frankfurt, Toronto, and back home in the last two years. I've never actually missed a flight on standby until this trip, when I missed two and Kaylin missed three. Our planned ro ute was Edmonton to LA to Nadi, Fiji. The day before we left, our dad checked the flight load and saw that we would not make t he flight to Fiji, so we planned to fly from Edmonton to Denver to Tokyo. At 6:00 am, I made it onto the flight to Denver in the morning, but Kaylin did not. Kaylin was not in Denver on time for the flight to Tokyo, and I did not get a seat. I found two flights from Minneapolis to Tokyo and flew to Minneapolis before Kaylin landed in Denver, then Kaylin took her own flight t...
