As usual, I'm continuing to enjoy the read; so much diversity in your travels.

The ballet is a reminder, now that I am semi-retired, that I need to check out the Kennedy Center in my backyard just about.

I don't know if I'd ever have an opportunity to take a train as a first segment of a LH trip. But I wonder if my *G status would get me into the train station lounge as *G gets me into LH Senator lounges, Hmmm...