Coming Home!

Attention everyone in Houston: Tony and I were talking last night and we started reminiscing about people and places in Houston we haven't seen in forever, and how much longer it was going to be until we were going to be home, and how miserable and homesick I was going to be while camping in the English elements by the time Silchester rolled around in late June and we made an important decision: we're coming home. I've been out of my home country since August and I've had enough of it; I want a big bag of kettle korn, a super large serving of Lai Lai's General Tso's Chicken, a burger and seasoned fries at Red Robin, and a Whataburger. BAD. Yep, when S&G's Homeward Bound goes from making me nostalgic to making me cry uncontrollably, it's time to go home. That's the sign.

Anyway, we remembered that we had 2 weeks in June between programs that we didn't know what to do with and going home to see our families and our hometown sounded a LOT better than hitchhiking and homelessness in Europe. So we sat up at 4 in the morning in Athens to start researching plane tickets from Athens to Houston, just for kicks, and found out to our surprise that we could both fly home and back to London in mid June for a combined price less than what I spent on my first single round trip ticket bought last summer. So a few plane searches and less than $1500 later (I had to search for the '$' sign on my keyboard because it'd been so long since I've used it that I forgot where it was), we had round trip tickets booked home. Here's our itenerary:

Sun 14-Jun-09 Athens (ATH) Depart 6:55 am to Paris (CDG) Arrive 9:20 am Terminal AEROGARE 2 TERMINAL D 1,306 mi (2,102 km) Duration: 3hr 25mn DL Delta Flight: 9333 Operated by: AIR FRANCE 3Economy/Coach Class ( 00, 00 ), Breakfast, Airbus A320 Please check in with Air France. If checking in at a kiosk, use your name rather than confirmation number. Paris (CDG) Depart 10:30 am Terminal AEROGARE 2 TERMINAL E to Houston (IAH) Arrive 1:55 pm Terminal D INTERNATIONAL 5,028 mi (8,092 km) Duration: 10hr 25mn DL Delta Flight: 8314 Operated by: AIR FRANCE 3Economy/Coach Class ( 00, 00 ), Lunch, 77W Total distance: 6,334 mi (10,194 km) Total duration: 13hr 50mn (15hr 0mn with connections) Sat 27-Jun-09 Houston (IAH) Depart 8:05 am Terminal A to New York (JFK) Arrive 12:44 pm Terminal 3 1,415 mi (2,277 km) Duration: 3hr 39mn DL Delta Flight: 6822 Operated by: COMAIR INC 3Economy/Coach Class ( 19A, 19B ), CR9 Please check in with Comair. If checking in at a kiosk, use your name rather than confirmation number. New York (JFK) Depart 6:00 pm Terminal 3 to London (LHR) Arrive 7:05 am +1 day Terminal 4 3,458 mi (5,565 km) Duration: 8hr 5mn DL Delta Flight: 3 3Economy/Coach Class ( 41A, 41B ), Dinner, Boeing 767 Total distance: 4,873 mi (7,842 km) Total duration: 11hr 44mn (17hr 0mn with connections)