The other culinary highlight of this leg was Edy's Chicken and Steak, a Peruvian-style place run by a Thai lady. Good plain food, the chicken being roasted with a fusion between S. American and S. Asian spices, the "steak" a tough but tasty piece of marinated round.
Also marinated pork chops and spicy, fatty chorizo sausage. Fried yuca ($1 extra for the privilege of not eating French fries) is excellent; iceberg lettuce salad is not. For dessert, go to the counter at the far side of the restaurant, which sells tropical fruit
ice creams and pastries filled with dulce de leche. All two gluttons could eat: $20.
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UA 911 IAD BOS 11A. I didn't bother to use my 1K Clout, as a 413-mi foodless flight on which I was going to try to get some shuteye anyhow (I prop myself up against the window, comfy enough for me in Y, but in F I get a neck ache unless I sit bolt upright - and yes,
I do wipe the hair grease off the window both before and after the flight) was not worth the certificate. So some lucky premier got upgraded (the waitlist for F was long). Got put in what is actually the first row after E+ but has excellent legroom (n.b.) We took off
in a driving rainstorm, had turbulence throughout. Ch 9 on - very blase captain who reported light chop (ATC said "everyone else is reporting moderate") - eventually we really hit a bump, and everyone lost their teeth, and the guy laconically reported "yeah, a few
pockets of moderate." I actually slept through most of the flight, but people said it was mighty bumpy.
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Aside (referring to the P.D.Q. Bach Missa Hilarious: "The autograph score bears, after the last double bar, the inscription "Deo Gratias" (Thank God!). These words are not in the composer's handwriting.

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Cheers
Michael *G