Expecting to fly

2d leg - Bill and Tom after checking in at O'Hare. We head to NY in 2 hrs.

One of the most interesting things at O'Hare was having lunch and our waiter was from Bulgaria -- a young guy who seemed to be out for good times. We told him we were going to Romania and he said "What the hell do you want to go there for?" We talked a bit and the most important thing he seemed to want us to understand was the tremendous resentment that 500 years of Turkish occupation had left. He said his own grandfather had been enslaved by the Ottomans when young. A good reflection of Balkan politics & history to start the trip.