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Sunday, April 28th, 2019.

Once I left Daryl, I went back to the CityBox hotel, picked up my bags, then went to the Oslo S train station, about two blocks away. I bought ticket for the next train to the airport, which was arriving and leaving in about ten minutes. 20-30 minutes after that I was at the airport. The check-in was easy. There's an export customs screening before I checked my bag and the agent asked if I had bought anything. I said I had a tea towel and also a little moose. (It was actually a small reindeer stuffed animal for a friend's daughter.) The agent looked at me for a moment and then asked, "It's a souvenir?" Then I understood his question and said, "Yes. It's not a real one." I was not transporting any moose-meat with me.

The flight was uneventful and we arrived in JFK 30 minutes early at 9:30pm. Therefore, as a penalty we had to wait 45 minutes for a gate. Things dragged on; it took an hour for our bags to arrive. There were no problems, it was just slow. I took the subway into Manhattan that that was more waiting, plus it was a bit of Crazytown that night, so it was about 2:30am before I got to the hotel. It was a long day. But a good two weeks.

000-DSC_3621: I took the train from Oslo S to the airport (takes about 20 minutes). 001-DSC_3622: Taxiing out to the runway at the Oslo airport. 002-DSC_3623: Still a lot of grunge-snow left from winter. 003-DSC_3624: Taxiing parallel to Runway 01 Left. 004-DSC_3626: Passing the ILS Critical Hold Short area. 005-DSC_3627: Entering Runway 01 Left at Oslo. 006-DSC_3628: Just after takeoff from Oslo. 007-DSC_3630: Heading west from Oslo. 008-DSC_3632: Over the middle of Norway and the snow-capped interior mountains. 009-DSC_3633: Norway at 38,000 feet give or take. Cold and unforgiving. 010-DSC_3635: More moutains and snow in the middle of Norway. 011-DSC_3636: Still more moutains and snow in the middle of Norway. 012-DSC_3637: Clouds below obscure the view. 013-DSC_3641: Sunset as we're somewhere near North America. 014-DSC_3642: Sunset from a 787. 015-DSC_3643: 016-DSC_3645: 017-DSC_3647: I caught the belly, red, anticollsion light illuminating the engine. Plus sunset in the distance. 018-DSC_3648: The New York City area at the end of dusk. 019-DSC_3650: Approaching the JFK airport, the red strobe lighthing the wing. 020-DSC_3653: Long Island as we approach the JFK airport. 021-DSC_3655: The trip is over, want to play again? Bottom: