Bye Dubai, hello Istanbul

The adventures start before I even leave the States! "Equipment failure" keeps us grounded for an extra hour and a half in SFO. That means I'll miss my connecting flights to Dubai and Kyrgyzstan. I hop on the phone with customer service while the plane pulls away from the gate, and get confirmation AS WE PICK UP SPEED DOWN THE RUNWAY that my bro Taylor at United worked a deal with Turkish Airlines to get me on the same flight to Bishkek from Istanbul as my buddies!

It's hard to wrap my head around how well things work out sometimes. What a rush when logistics fall into place.