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The flight from JFK to Bergen. The beginning of the Great Norwegian Adventure. From Sunday April 14 to Sunday April 28, 2019. I left in the morning on the Cornell bus to New York City. Because of the grounding of all 737 Max 8 planes, my flights on Norwegian Air were changed so that they were now out of JFK airport in New York City, instead of the Stewart Airport in Newburg, NY.

I spent the afternoon at the office where I was consulting, then got transport to the airport and began the journey (even though I had already spent 4 hours on a bus).


000-DSC_2191-header: JFK Airport 000-DSC_2191-headertext: There were lines. I call it an unsorted priority queue. 000-DSC_2191: The line at the JFK airport at 9pm for an 11:30pm flight was pretty crazy. And apparently it was just another Sunday night for them. 001-DSC_2192: The line extended all the way down the terminal and then back, with a gap in it so people could have access to and from the escalators. 002-DSC_2194-header: Night and Dawn 002-DSC_2194-headertext: 002-DSC_2194: I caught the 787's wing illuminated by the flashing red anti-collision light. Yeah, I had time to spare. 003-DSC_2197: The glow of dawn over the North Atlantic at 37,000 feet. 004-DSC_2200-header: Norway from 37,000 ' 004-DSC_2200-headertext: 004-DSC_2200: The landscape below over the interior of Norway was quite beautiful at altitude. 005-DSC_2201: 006-DSC_2202: 007-DSC_2203: Much less snow around as we are getting near the airport and the approach flaps are set. 008-DSC_2204: Landing flaps set, we are getting near the Oslo-Gardermoen airport. Only very small bits of snow remain. 009-DSC_2205-header: The Oslo-Gardermoen Airport 009-DSC_2205-headertext: You can buy things there. 009-DSC_2205: A view of the gauntlet that is the duty free shop below at the Gardermoen airport. 010-DSC_2206: 011-DSC_2207: It's actually a pretty nice airport. 012-DSC_2208: Of course the cartoon mother on the Norwegian Air Saftey Card is tall, thin, buxom, with blonde hair and blue eyes. And she's strong enough to rip a 200 lb. door off its hinges and tear it in two if her child is at risk. I'll have to fly this airline more often. 013-DSC_2209-header: From the Plane again 013-DSC_2209:-headertext 013-DSC_2209: Pushing back at Oslo-Gardermoen airport. 014-DSC_2210: Notice the 6 foot wall of remnant grunge snow in the distance. 015-DSC_2211: 016-DSC_2212: 017-DSC_2213: More views of the interior of Norway as we head west to Bergan. The snow-capped mountains look like some sort of pastries with powdered sugar on them. 018-DSC_2214-header: From the Airport to Bergen 018-DSC_2214-headertext: 018-DSC_2214: On the bus from the Bergan airport into town. 019-DSC_2215: The scenery is quite pretty, and this is the mundane stuff. Bottom: