My memory is so bad that its best I if I do it as I go.
1.5 hours in traffic delays getting to the airport. Lesson learned a long time ago, is better to get sloshed in the airport bar cause I was too early, than miss a flight due to anyone of a hundred factors. So getting semi-sloched as I type.
EcoPark let me down by charging for covered parking that I could not get into. A waste of $28. I will live, life is good.
Turkish Air clerks, polite, efficient and helpful. But for some reason they wanted me to say it was a business trip. I mean they dropped hints. So I did, and in fact my 40 hour work weeks will be 50% medical, 25% business and 25% play. See, i don't lie, no matter what. Just me.
I looked up the official web page and tourism is still permitted, but I know some rules changed on Monday and maybe the website needs updating or maybe the Turkish Air rep just missed exception 12 at the bottom of the page.
The clerk said i had an aside seat and he blocked out the other 2 so i can take a nap. Really? I guess I will find out. Same guy that helped me in September.
The passport and COVID test was checked by two clerks as a matter of process and then to security.
Hey guys, please get ready before you are standing at the conveyor belt. Get a small bag and when you get through the passport check cram EVERYTHING in it. Wallet, watch, passport ... everything. Then its just a matter of tossing it all along with your shoes in a bin and walking. And I don't have to wait for your deer in the headlight expression when security has to tell you the obvious. Briana is waiting with a fine Cab!!! My G-d the security people were polite and a lot more patient than I would be.
Odd, they didn't care about laptops this time.
Any way, that brings me to Terminal D, Tony's Wine Bar and an hour to kill with Briana (the bar tender)