Tbilisi, Georgia Airport

Wednesday.

Woke up before the sun, and apparently missed out on the fact that there had been a time-change somewhere along the way Monday. We are one hour more west than we have been for three months, and that is okay other than the fact that we were an hour early for breakfast!


A skype chat with Indy, she offers an interesting idea--travel one time-zone every three days and there would be no jet-lag when you arrive home. Uhhh, 30 days later...


We got through breakfast, boiled eggs and muffins again with strong strong strong coffee, and got packed up again then checked out of the hotel. We took a taxi to the airport and made the adventurous decision to just stay in the airport until our flight at 4:40AM Thursday. Perhaps needless to say our 16 hours was filled with lots of waiting. 

We met an interesting fellow, an American in the oil business headed back to Baku. It was nice to have someone new to talk to and we spent a little more than an hour in conversation with him. He has been working on oil-platforms in the Caspian Sea for several years now out of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.


We hear American english a couple other times, but most of the day and night is spent just waiting. We watch a couple movies and walk around and eat some way-too-overpriced food. All in all, for a transition point into Azerbaijan, this is a clean, new, polite airport that is two-hours closer to Ganja even with the border crossing. We have learned a lot, and this is not a bad way to enter the Caucuses.

It is almost 2:00AM, we can check in at 2:40 and then we go through passport control. Thursday promises to be a long day as we wing our way west. Look forward to an interesting post Thursday night or Friday morning. By the way, there are more people in this airport at 2:00 AM than any other time of the day...