VALCANO!, What do you mean Volcano

Spent most of the day on the internet dealing with British Airlines, news flashes, volcano info searches dealing with web site that crashed or wouldn't open. My flight was going back through London tomorrow and all things looked bad for getting to London but BA wouldn't cancel it. Finally just twelve hours to flight time they canceled the flight. Was waiting for the cancellation before buying another ticket and had found one on wednesday but by the time British Airlines canceled the only options for wednesday was a China Airlines flight through Peking for $4896. There were several later next week for less than a thousand but an extra week of hotels and meals in Istanbul is not cheap, especially since the most I paid for a hotel before Istanbul was $15 a night. The least I paid was $1.50 in Allepo, and it wasn't worth it, would have rather camped.

There are a number of things to worry about when traveling in the middle east such as war breaking out but never thought about a volcano. The last trip here was a month before Israel bombed the nuke plant in Syria. Later when the site was found on google map I realized we had camped not far away one night. Sure would have been a scoop to get photos that night of the sky lighting up.

Just an hour ago I was able to get on Turkish airlines site and found a last minute flight from Istanbul to Chicago and on to Las Vegas for about half what it was earlier. Wow, I'm going home!!!!!!!!!! Hopefully. The news tonight was that some airports in northern Turkey are shut down as the volcano junk is moving east and south. If we can get out of here before it gets to Istanbul we should be flying far enough south to avoid the European flight space problems.