Day 1: Brussels -Semora - Saterday 9/4

The day begun early at 6:30am to take the train to Brussels Airport. Saying goodbye to my girlfriend, Doreen, and my blond Lab, Lucca, was very hard. Tears run heavily.

As always I had an extra security check in the airport before I could enter the departure hall to go to the gate.
The first flight from Brussels to Washington DC was quite Ok, I saw a movie with Russel Crow, Highway 61, and ate some pasta. The rest of the way I slept with my Ipod plugged in.

Once in de DC, we had to clear US Customs. That was something else... Luckily the guy didn’t give me a hard time.

At the baggage claim I can only remember a dog sniffing my bag. It was a K9, but I couldn’t stop thinking about my four legged girlfriend, Lucca.

After a donut, we were ready to fly to Raleigh/Durham... It was only a 45min fly, but were we in for a threat. The craziest stewardess was on the plan. She made jokes, wore a halloween mask, etc... I fell asleep only to be woke up by some heavy turbulence. The plane was all over the place and I kid you not the pilot overshot the runway... we pulled up with full throttle and I new I was in trouble... Concentrating to land, we finally made it, but my stomach was in a knot. Nevertheless we arrived and we great by Arthur en Newman. To great guys.

Some of us were hungry so after a drive in a heavy thunderstorm we ended up in Tylers Tap Room... A real American sports bar, where I could watch Hockey :-) I didn’t eat a lot, because my body was in agony and I ordered the wrong dish. I needed sleep and I needed it fast, but we still had an hour drive in front of us.

Still raining, we arrived in Semora, NC, at a nice summer house at the lake. I dosed of immediately... Sweat dreams.