Onion River Exploration Project: Coming Home

Day 21 (8/21/2010) Day 14 Baltic Sea Adventure

Greenland

It is the last day of our adventure. We slept in a little later because we have to fly home. Last night there must have been some serious partying going on out in the street. They were still going at 5:00 this morning. I should have gotten up and closed the windows but I kept thinking it wouldn’t go much longer. We did manage to sleep pretty well though. After breakfast we went out to do a little more exploring before heading to the airport. Once again we passed through the New Harbor area then followed the pier up along edge of the city. We didn’t want to get lost because we wanted to make sure we were ready to check out of the hotel by 11:00. We were amazed by how many new gems kept popping up. The hotel called us a taxi to the airport. We think maybe we got fleeced a little because the meter started at 44. The driver didn’t seem to speak much English though so we decided not to mention it. The way he was driving we were just glad to get to the airport. We think he may have trained at the Mario Andretti School for cab driving. Again we got to the airport very early but that seems to make things a lot less stressful.

We just passed over the southern tip of Norway and are currently flying towards Iceland. I think we are going to pass south of it though. Again we have the onboard mapping system which I find really fun. We seem to be going about 50 to 70 miles an hour slower than when we flew out. We did pass below Iceland but much to my amusement we passed over the southern tip of Greenland. We could see the glaciers calving icebergs below us. The trip back to Chicago seemed to go pretty fast.