Well, it is 5:26 am in Denver and 1:26 pm in Frankfurt. My travels had me leave Denver yesterday at about 3:30 in the afternoon. I flew to Dulles where I got on a plane to Frankfurt late in the evening. The final leg of this bit of travel has me flying from Frankfurt to Barcelona. Approximate travel time from my first stepping on a plane to my stepping off the last plane--15 hours and 15 minutes.

The pingVision crew are flying in three separate volleys to Drupalcon. It has me thinking of the "Amazing Race" where different teams end up on different flight plans. I imagine lines on a map streaking from city to city showing the different routes each group are taking.

The flight from Denver to Dulles had me in a bulkhead--not my favourite way to travel. The second leg, from Dulles to Frankfurt also had me at a bulkhead. Not so terrible because while I don't really sleep on planes, I did pass most of the time with a sleep mask on and headphones emitting white noise. The first two flights were United flights, the flight I'm on right now is a Lufthansa flight.

In Germany, I had to clear a passport check, but I wasn't required to clear customs. I expect I'll be doing that in Spain. The immigration officer didn't ask me a single question--he looked at me, my passport, and waved me through. I've never had that happen before. The Frankfurt airport is a little confusing--there are only two terminals, but the signs indicate it doesn't matter whta direction you go in to get to the appropriate terminal. There is lots of walking to get from one place to another but fortunately, the trek between the two terminals is replete with people movers.

There are apparently not enough gates for the traffic the airport gets. Many planes were parked in what is literally a parking lot for aircraft. We got off the plane on a set of stairs--keep in mind that this was a Boeing 777--and boarded buses for the main terminal.

The folks at Lufthansa seem very friendly. The seats in this airbus are leather and quite comfortable. There is no audio or video service, but it looks like they are going to serve some nice looking sandwiches. So, I'm going sit back and watch one of the videos that I loaded onto my laptop from DVArchive two nights ago and wait for us to arrive in Barcelona.

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