The Adventure Begins Today!

My flight leaves Burlington at 17:55 today (that's 24 format time for 5:55pm - as soon as my plane leaves the ground, I have to switch to 24 hour/military time because that's how they tell time in France!)

I am going to fly from Burlington to New York City:

Then, I have a VEEEERY long layover in New York. I will be stuck at the airport for about 6 hours. This will give me time to eat dinner, go through the extra security required for international travel and I will most likely end up in a corner somewhere sleeping or watching a movie on my iPod - unfortunately, JFK airport isn't that exciting. 

At 1:20am (that's right - in the morning!!) I fly from NYC to Paris: 

When I land in Paris, I have a VERY short amount of time to run from one plane to the next - I have to catch another plane to Toulouse, France!! 

FINALLY, I will have to drive from Toulouse to Figeac, France. (If you have read previous posts, you know that Figeac is where Blue Lake en France is taking place....) 

A note about driving in France:   I own a Garmin GPS thingy - this little device and I get along very, very well but I discovered last night that getting European maps for the device is very expensive and quite technical. So, alas, I will be driving without Garmin. Seems easy, but I haven't had to use a map in over four years and now I'll have to be reading French signs to boot!!  

If I'm not there on the first day of school, please contact the French authorities and request that a search be done in the general region of this map: 

So, for now, that's it!  I travel to Burlington in a few hours and the adventure officially begins. I will post until I get to France and then it all depends on whether I have WiFi or not - it's too expensive to use my iPhone in Europe, so the cell phone functions are being deactivated. 

Happy Summer!