We found $00.50 USD at IST!

After several days of hectic packing and generally being at each other’s throats, followed by a tearful farewell with family, friends, and Felus, we find ourselves  sitting here in Istanbul's international airport, drinking our first international cocktail: a home-grown $1 dollar mini Evan Williams and $5 Turkish can of Sprite, 10:50AM Chicago time, 6:50PM local time (piwo z rana jak smietana).

Upon landing here in Istanbul, we decided to roam around the airport a bit, not looking for anything in particular, but just to stretch our legs and kill some time during our 3 hour layover here. We got to a dead end next to the Turkish Air VIP lounge, and just as we were contemplating how the hell one gets a ride on  one of those airport taxis that get dangerously close to running over people’s feet while honking incessantly through airports (this must be universal), lo and behold, we see ...