We left Ostrava, Czech Republic around 3 pm for Budapest Hungary. Matt, Rebecca, and I got to the train station around 2:30 to wait for our 5-hour train that was going to transport us.
After a relatively simple 5 hour train ride, we moved cars because our original didn’t have A/C, we got picked up by John Michael and Tim. We then proceeded to take a 15-minute tram ride to get to the hostel that we were spending the night.
That morning we woke up about 10 am and didn’t leave for the airport till 1ish in the afternoon, we waited outside that whole time. The squad took a bus from the hostel to the airport. We have now packed our bags into 3 different areas in 24 hours, train, tram, and bus. Once we got to the airport we had about a 3-hour wait till the plane would take off.
Matt, Kevin, and I attempted to entertain ourselves by tossing coins into a nalgene bottle in the middle of the lobby; needless to say we got a lot of looks.
The plane from Budapest took us to Warsaw Poland to connect to our flight to JFK airport in New York. Our layover was just under 2 hours long.
Generally international flights have larger seats and personal TV’s on the back of the chairs in front of you. This gives you up to date DVD’s to watch and TV shows! It makes a huge difference in how a 10-hour flight goes. If you guessed that we didn’t have either of those things for our 10-hour flight across the Atlantic, you guessed right.
Polish airlines are the WORST airline I have ever flown on. Not only were the seats small, no TV, but snacks weren’t free either! Are they trying to make us suffer?!
Of course we survived, and I must say it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. Once we got to JFK airport it was still dark out, we left Poland at about 8 pm and because of the time difference arrived in JFK around 10 pm. Our heads were definitely messed with.
But there was a huge difference from all the other international flights we had taken, WE WERE IN AMERICA! The unfortunate thing is that we were stuck in airport purgatory. All the stores were closed and we couldn’t check into our flight for another 6 hours. I still got Reese’s, which the rest of the world doesn’t have, Duncan Donuts coffee, and the NBA playoffs were on! I considered the night a success.
We tried to get some sleep, but the tile on the floor is not exactly comfortable.
Our next flight was at 6am to Miami were we had an hour layover before our flight to Guatemala.
We finally arrived in Guatemala City Guatemala to be greeted by a lovely hour and a half van ride to Antigua.
That means I left the Czech Republic April 30th traveled through 5 countries, and arrived 3.5 days later in Antigua Guatemala. This is what travel with the World Race is all about!
