Bucharest! And today is my birthday! Today is going to be a very loooong day. We fly from Boston to JFK and have a 6 hour layover before our flight to Bucharest. We really didn’t have a choice, it was either that flight or a flight where the layover was too short and we didn’t want to miss our next flight. So we’ll be hanging out in the Delta Crown Room trying to mentally prepare for a 10 hour flight to Bucharest. This will be the longest flight we’ve ever been on. Our previous longest flight was from Miami to Santiago, Chile in South America, which was 8.5 hours. I find flying eastbound to be the worst. You leave in the evening and are supposed to sleep on the flight and then arrive early in the morning there. I can never sleep on planes, and if I do, it isn’t a lot, so I usually spend the next day recovering.

Now, I’m sure you’re asking why in the world did you choose to go to Bucharest? So here’s the story…one day Brendan comes home from one of his many consulting trips and says “I know where we’re going next…Bucharest” I’m a little skeptical, “where did you get this idea from”…. “an article in the Delta Airlines Magazine.” Actually it was a special advertising article because Delta just started offering non-stop flights to Bucharest from JFK. So, without even thinking about it I said ok and we booked our trip. It wasn’t until after we booked our trip and I started doing a little research that I realized there really isn’t a lot of travel information about Bucharest. There are only a few travel books and they cover the whole country, with just a little section on Bucharest. So now I’m thinking, this could be an interesting trip!

Some tidbits about Romania:

• Nadia Comăneci is from Romania. She was the winner of 6 Gold Medals in the 1976 Olympics and the first gymnast to ever receive a score of 10 (a perfect score). I still remember watching it!
• Dracula, the novel and character created by Bram Stoker, was based in Transylvania which is located in Romania.
• Until the 1989 revolution, Romania was a Communist state. It’s last Communist leader was Nicolae Ceauşescu, who was captured along with his wife after the revolution, put on trial for genocide and both were executed.

Bucharest should be really interesting and we’re really excited to get there!

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